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Fighting Sharka in Peach: Current Limitations and Future Perspectives

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Plant Science, August 2016
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Title
Fighting Sharka in Peach: Current Limitations and Future Perspectives
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Frontiers in Plant Science, August 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpls.2016.01290
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Marco Cirilli, Filippo Geuna, Anna R. Babini, Valentina Bozhkova, Luigi Catalano, Beniamino Cavagna, Sylvie Dallot, Véronique Decroocq, Luca Dondini, Stefano Foschi, Vincenza Ilardi, Alessandro Liverani, Bruno Mezzetti, Angelantonio Minafra, Marco Pancaldi, Tiziana Pandolfini, Thierry Pascal, Vito N. Savino, Ralph Scorza, Ignazio Verde, Daniele Bassi

Abstract

Sharka, caused by Plum Pox Virus (PPV), is by far the most important infectious disease of peach [P. persica (L.) Batsch] and other Prunus species. The progressive spread of the virus in many important growing areas throughout Europe poses serious issues to the economic sustainability of stone fruit crops, peach in particular. The adoption of internationally agreed-upon rules for diagnostic tests, strain-specific monitoring schemes and spatial-temporal modeling of virus spread, are all essential for a more effective sharka containment. The EU regulations on nursery activity should be modified based on the zone delimitation of PPV presence, limiting open-field production of propagation materials only to virus-free areas. Increasing the efficiency of preventive measures should be augmented by the short-term development of resistant cultivars. Putative sources of resistance/tolerance have been recently identified in peach germplasm, although the majority of novel resistant sources to PPV-M have been found in almond. However, the complexity of introgression from related-species imposes the search for alternative strategies. The use of genetic engineering, particularly RNA interference (RNAi)-based approaches, appears as one of the most promising perspectives to introduce a durable resistance to PPV in peach germplasm, notwithstanding the well-known difficulties of in vitro plant regeneration in this species. In this regard, rootstock transformation to induce RNAi-mediated systemic resistance would avoid the transformation of numerous commercial cultivars, and may alleviate consumer resistance to the use of GM plants.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 51 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 18%
Student > Bachelor 5 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 10%
Student > Master 5 10%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 10 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 27 53%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 12%
Chemistry 2 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 12 24%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 September 2016.
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#13,477,095
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Outputs from Frontiers in Plant Science
#6,693
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#180,114
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Plant Science
#122
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