New Technologies Provide Innovative Opportunities to Enhance Understanding of Major Virus Diseases Threatening Global Food Security

Kreuze, Jan; Cuéllar, Wilmer J.; Kumar, Lava; Prasanna, B. M.; Omondi, A.B.

doi:10.1094/phyto-12-22-0457-v

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“…Under these circumstances, preventing incursions of damaging viruses and their virus vectors, and eradicating or containing any that establish successfully, is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge for biosecurity authorities located within different world regions and countries. Fortunately, rapid technological advances that improve the effectiveness of virus diagnosis in preborder, border and postborder situations are providing new opportunities to detect viruses earlier and more reliably (Jones, 2014;Martin et al, 2016;Kreuze, et al, 2023;Waite et al, 2022;Adams and Fox, 2016;Barrero et al, 2017;Pecman et al, 2017;Bronzato-Badial et al, 2018;FAO, 2019;Piper et al, 2019;Liefting et al, 2021;Maina et al, 2021;Whattam et al, 2021;Gauthier et al, 2022;Lelwala et al, 2022;Mackie et al, 2022;AlcaláBriseño et al, 2023).…”

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Enhancing biosecurity against virus disease threats to Australian grain crops: current situation and future prospects

Maina,

Jones

2023

Front. Hortic.

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Australia is a major grain exporter, and this trade makes an important contribution to its economy. Fortunately, it remains free of many damaging virus diseases and virus vectors found elsewhere. However, its crop biosecurity is under increasing pressure from global ecological, climatic, and demographic challenges. Stringent biosecurity and plant health programs safeguard Australian grain production from damaging virus and virus vector incursions entering via different pathways. These programs formerly relied upon traditional testing procedures (indicator hosts, serology, PCRs) to intercept incoming virus-contaminated plant material. Recently, the integration of rapid genomic diagnostics innovation involving High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) smart tools into sample testing schedules is under exploration to improve virus testing accuracy, efficiency, and cost effectiveness under diverse circumstances. This process includes evaluating deployment of Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Technology shotgun sequencing. It also includes evaluating targeted viral genome HTS and virus vector metabarcoding approaches. In addition, using machine learning and deep learning capacities for big data analyses and remote sensing technologies will improve virus surveillance. Tracking damaging virus variants will be improved by surveillance networks which combine virus genomic-surveillance systems with an interoperable virus database. Sequencing Australian virus specimen collections will help ensure the accuracy of virus identifications based solely on genetic information. Enhancing routine diagnosis and data collection using these innovations will improve post entry virus interception and background virus and vector surveillance. This will help reduce the frequency of new incursions, improve virus management during eradication, containment and other plant health activities, and achieve more profitable Australian grain production.

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Enhancing biosecurity against virus disease threats to Australian grain crops: current situation and future prospects

Maina,

Jones

2023

Front. Hortic.

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Epidemiology and Management of Plant Viruses Under a Changing Climate

Jeger,

Fereres,

Malmstrom

et al. 2023

Phytopathology®

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Plant viruses are an ever-present threat to agricultural production and provide a wide array of symptoms resulting in economic losses throughout the world. Diseases can be transmitted by insect vectors, as well as through pollen, seed, and other means. With the increased globalization of agriculture, the introduction of new viruses from exotic locations and their establishment in new production regions and even new crops is a growing concern. Advancing knowledge of the epidemiology of plant viruses including development of new diagnostic methods, virus surveillance, and modeling, virus ecology and evolution, virus interactions with insect vectors, and other factors are important toward reducing the spread of plant viruses and managing virus diseases.

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Building integrated plant health surveillance: a proactive research agenda for anticipating and mitigating disease and pest emergence

Soubeyrand,

Estoup,

Cruaud

et al. 2024

CABI Agric Biosci

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In an era marked by rapid global changes, the reinforcement and modernization of plant health surveillance systems have become imperative. Sixty-five scientists present here a research agenda for an enhanced and modernized plant health surveillance to anticipate and mitigate disease and pest emergence. Our approach integrates a wide range of scientific fields (from life, social, physical and engineering sciences) and identifies the key knowledge gaps, focusing on anticipation, risk assessment, early detection, and multi-actor collaboration. The research directions we propose are organized around four complementary thematic axes. The first axis is the anticipation of pest emergence, encompassing innovative forecasting, adaptive potential, and the effects of climatic and cropping system changes. The second axis addresses the use of versatile broad-spectrum surveillance tools, including molecular or imaging diagnostics supported by artificial intelligence, and monitoring generic matrices such as air and water. The third axis focuses on surveillance of known pests from new perspectives, i.e., using novel approaches to detect known species but also anticipating and detecting, within a species, the populations or genotypes that pose a higher risk. The fourth axis advocates the management of plant health as a commons through the establishment of multi-actor and cooperative surveillance systems for long-term data-driven alert systems and information dissemination. We stress the importance of integrating data and information from multiple sources through open science databases and metadata, alongside developing methods for interpolating and extrapolating incomplete data. Finally, we advocate an Integrated Health Surveillance approach in the One Health context, favoring tailored and versatile solutions to plant health problems and recognizing the interconnected risks to the health of plants, humans, animals and the environment, including food insecurity, pesticide residues, environmental pollution and alterations of ecosystem services.

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New Technologies Provide Innovative Opportunities to Enhance Understanding of Major Virus Diseases Threatening Global Food Security

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Enhancing biosecurity against virus disease threats to Australian grain crops: current situation and future prospects

Enhancing biosecurity against virus disease threats to Australian grain crops: current situation and future prospects

Epidemiology and Management of Plant Viruses Under a Changing Climate

Building integrated plant health surveillance: a proactive research agenda for anticipating and mitigating disease and pest emergence

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