Geometagenomics illuminates the impact of agriculture on the distribution and prevalence of plant viruses at the ecosystem scale

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 173 - 184
• Main Authors: Bernardo, Pauline, Charles-Dominique, Tristan, Barakat, Mohamed, Ortet, Philippe, Fernandez, Emmanuel, Filloux, Denis, Hartnady, Penelope, Rebelo, Tony A, Cousins, Stephen R, Mesleard, François, Cohez, Damien, Yavercovski, Nicole, Varsani, Arvind, Harkins, Gordon W, Peterschmitt, Michel, Malmstrom, Carolyn M, Martin, Darren P, Roumagnac, Philippe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.01.2018; Oxford University Press; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/326/596/2142; 704/158/855; Agricultural land; Agriculture; Biodiversity; Biodiversity hot spots; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Contact potentials; Ecological effects; Ecology; Ecosystems; Environmental Sciences; Evolutionary Biology; Human influences; Information systems; Interfaces; Land use; Life Sciences; Luminance distribution; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Original; original-article; Plant diseases; Plant viruses; Plants (botany); Population genetics; Rivers; Viruses

Disease emergence events regularly result from human activities such as agriculture, which frequently brings large populations of genetically uniform hosts into contact with potential pathogens. Although viruses cause nearly 50% of emerging plant diseases, there is little systematic information abou...