TY - JOUR
T1 - Global plant virus disease pandemics and epidemics
AU - Jones, Roger A.C.
PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - The world’s staple food crops, and other food crops that optimize human nutrition, suffer from global virus disease pandemics and epidemics that greatly diminish their yields and/or pro-duce quality. This situation is becoming increasingly serious because of the human population’s growing food requirements and increasing difficulties in managing virus diseases effectively arising from global warming. This review provides historical and recent information about virus disease pandemics and major epidemics that originated within different world regions, spread to other con-tinents, and now have very wide distributions. Because they threaten food security, all are cause for considerable concern for humanity. The pandemic disease examples described are six (maize lethal necrosis, rice tungro, sweet potato virus, banana bunchy top, citrus tristeza, plum pox). The major epidemic disease examples described are seven (wheat yellow dwarf, wheat streak mosaic, potato tuber necrotic ringspot, faba bean necrotic yellows, pepino mosaic, tomato brown rugose fruit, and cucumber green mottle mosaic). Most examples involve long-distance virus dispersal, albeit inad-vertent, by international trade in seed or planting material. With every example, the factors respon-sible for its development, geographical distribution and global importance are explained. Finally, an overall explanation is given of how to manage global virus disease pandemics and epidemics effectively.
AB - The world’s staple food crops, and other food crops that optimize human nutrition, suffer from global virus disease pandemics and epidemics that greatly diminish their yields and/or pro-duce quality. This situation is becoming increasingly serious because of the human population’s growing food requirements and increasing difficulties in managing virus diseases effectively arising from global warming. This review provides historical and recent information about virus disease pandemics and major epidemics that originated within different world regions, spread to other con-tinents, and now have very wide distributions. Because they threaten food security, all are cause for considerable concern for humanity. The pandemic disease examples described are six (maize lethal necrosis, rice tungro, sweet potato virus, banana bunchy top, citrus tristeza, plum pox). The major epidemic disease examples described are seven (wheat yellow dwarf, wheat streak mosaic, potato tuber necrotic ringspot, faba bean necrotic yellows, pepino mosaic, tomato brown rugose fruit, and cucumber green mottle mosaic). Most examples involve long-distance virus dispersal, albeit inad-vertent, by international trade in seed or planting material. With every example, the factors respon-sible for its development, geographical distribution and global importance are explained. Finally, an overall explanation is given of how to manage global virus disease pandemics and epidemics effectively.
KW - Crop failure
KW - Crop losses
KW - Devastation
KW - Developing countries
KW - Disease
KW - Dissemination
KW - Domestication centers
KW - Epidemics
KW - Evolution
KW - Food insecurity
KW - Germplasm distribution
KW - Global
KW - Integrated disease management
KW - International trade
KW - Pandemics
KW - Threat
KW - Virus
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099747045&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/plants10020233
DO - 10.3390/plants10020233
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33504044
AN - SCOPUS:85099747045
SN - 2223-7747
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 41
JO - Plants
JF - Plants
IS - 2
M1 - 233
ER -