Disease control and its selection for damaging plant virus strains in vegetatively propagated staple food crops; a theoretical assessment.

نویسندگان

  • F van den Bosch
  • M J Jeger
  • C A Gilligan
چکیده

Viral diseases are a key constraint in the production of staple food crops in lesser developed countries. New and improved disease control methods are developed and implemented without consideration of the selective pressure they impose on the virus. In this paper, we analyse the evolution of within-plant virus titre as a response to the implementation of a range of disease control methods. We show that the development of new and improved disease control methods for viral diseases of vegetatively propagated staple food crops ought to take the evolutionary responses of the virus into consideration. Not doing so leads to a risk of failure, which can result in considerable economic losses and increased poverty. Specifically in vitro propagation, diagnostics and breeding methods carry a risk of failure due to the selection for virus strains that build up a high within-plant virus titre. For vegetatively propagated crops, sanitation by roguing has a low risk of failure owing to its combination of selecting for low virus titre strains as well as increasing healthy crop density.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Proceedings. Biological sciences

دوره 274 1606  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007