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Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2017, 16(3): 509
Editorial
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Viral pathogens and plant parasitic nematode
population of H. avenae is highly homologous.
I genuinely believe that the reader of the Journal of Inte-
grative Agriculture will be interested in these articles and
inspired with the nding of the papers for developing future
research on the given topics. I want to express my deep
appreciation to all authors for their high-quality contributions
and efforts to this special focus.
Jiban Kumar Kundu
Guest Editor
Division of Crop Protection and Plant Health
Crop Research Institute
Prague 16106, Czech Republic
References
Chalupniková J, Kundu J K, Singh K, Bartaková P, Beoni E.
Wheat streak mosaic virus: incidence in eld crops, potential
reservoir within grass species and uptake in winter wheat
cultivars. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 16, 523–531.
Kumari S. Morphological and molecular characterizations of
cereal cyst nematode Heterodera avenae Wollenweber,
1924 from the Czech Republic. Journal of Integrative
Agriculture, 16, 532–539.
Polák J, Kundu J K, Krška B, Beoni E, Komínek P, Pívalová J,
Jarošová J. Transgenic plum Prunus domestica L., clone
C5 (cv. HoneySweet) for protection against sharka disease.
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 16, 516–522.
Sihelská N, Glasa M, Šubr Z W. Host preference of the major
strains of Plum pox virus
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doi: 10.1016/S2095-3119(16)61558-7
This special focus is dedicated to three parts: i) One of the
most ubiquitous viral pathogens of stone fruit tree, Plum
pox virus (PPV); ii) a re-emerging pathogen, Wheat streak
mosaic virus (WSMV) of cereal crops in Central Europe;
and iii) a less studied plant parasitic, cyst-forming nema-
tode in cereal crops Heterodera avenae. The pathogens
described here are a serious concern for fruit growers and
producers of cereals in Europe and elsewhere in the world.
This special focus provides the most updated knowledge
of the given topics.
The rst article of PPV from Sihelská et al. (2017) had
described the host preference of three major PPV strains (M,
Rec, D) as evidenced by analysis of an extensive dataset of
PPV isolates of world-wide origin. The genetic determinants
and mechanisms of the host preference of this potyvirus
were also described. The second article of PPV from Polák
et al. (2017) had described a successful evidence of a ge-
netically engineered plum cv. HoneySweet and its long term
stability of resistance to PPV. Twelve years of eld testing
in the Czech Republic clearly demonstrated the high level of
resistance of HoneySweet both to continuous virus infection
pressure that occured through graft inoculated PPV source
and natural virus infection through aphid vectors.
Chalupniková et al. (2017) described a re-emerging
pathogen of cereal crops (mainly wheat) in Central Europe
on the other hand. In accordance with the growing number
of evidence of WSMV incidence in wheat crops, numbers of
natural grass hosts including weeds have been found to be
natural reservoirs of this virus, which may be the potential
source of WSMV infection in cereal crops.
Lastly, Kumari (2017) had described the incidence of this
plant parasitic nematode in cereal crops and shown that the
