Zeitschrift für Pflanzengenetik und Züchtung

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The Growing Discipline of Plant Virus Ecology: Foundations from History, Knowledge gaps, and Directions for Future Research

Ashok Lakra

Plant viruses are common in nature, where they work closely with their hosts and frequently with vectors. Most examination on plant infections to the present has zeroed in on farming frameworks (agronomic and green) and infections that are pathogenic. Thusly, there is a shortage of principal data about plant infection elements in normal environments and how they could vary from or be impacted by infection communications in oversaw frameworks. The nature of the relationship between virus and host fitness, as well as the extent to which it is influenced by ecosystem properties, are crucial questions. The expanding field of plant virus ecology seeks to investigate (i) the ecological roles of plant-associated viruses and their vectors in managed and unmanaged ecosystems, as well as (ii) the reciprocal influence of ecosystem properties on the distribution and evolution of plant viruses and their vectors, in order to fill in these critical knowledge gaps. Plant virus ecology expands the scope of the study into new ecological domains while drawing on the successes of epidemiology. In this section, we present a historical perspective, draw attention to important issues, and suggest new research directions. We argue that (i) plant viruses need to be taken into account in ecological theory and research, which has largely ignored them, and (ii) ecological perspectives on virology need to be broadened to include new ecological methods and disciplines like ecosystem ecology. Investigations of plant-infection vector cooperations in nature offer the two open doors and difficulties that will at last create diverse comprehension of the job of infections in molding biological and developmental elements.