Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) caused by cassava mosaic geminiviruses (CMGs) (Geminiviridae:Begomovirus)
is undoubtedly the most important constraint to the production of …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides a detailed description of the character, pattern of
spread and impact of the pandemic and reviews management initiatives implemented to …

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz.) is the most important vegetatively propagated food
staple in Africa and a prominent industrial crop in Latin America and Asia. Its vegetative …

Cassava mosaic disease (CMD), now known to be caused by cassava mosaic geminiviruses
(Family Geminiviridae; Genus Begomovirus), was first reported in East Africa in 1894. …

CD44 is a widely distributed type I transmembrane glycoprotein and functions as the major
hyaluronan receptor on most cell types. Although alternative splicing can produce a large …

Cassava is the third largest source of carbohydrates for human food in the world but is
vulnerable to virus diseases, which threaten to destabilize food security in sub-Saharan Africa. …

During the 1990s, an epidemic of an unusually severe form of cassava mosaic virus
disease (CMD) has expanded to cover virtually all of Uganda, and substantial areas in the …

Field surveys in many cassava growing areas of Africa have assessed the incidence and
severity of cassava mosaic disease (CMD), populations of the whitefly vector (Bemisia tabaci), …

The neurofibromatosis-2 (NF2) gene encodes merlin, an ezrin-radixin-moesin-(ERM)-related
protein that functions as a tumor suppressor. We found that merlin mediates contact …

Cassava is infected by numerous geminiviruses in Africa and India that cause devastating
losses to poor farmers. We here describe the molecular diversity of seven representative …