edited by Ian Cooper, Thomas Kühne and Valery P. Polischuk
1 online resource (xii, 148 pages) :
illustrations, maps.
NATO security through science series. Series C, Environmental security
"Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division."
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Significance of Virus Diseases for Crop Biosecurity in a Developing European Community, Kiev, Ukraine, 4-7 May 2005"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
A SHORT HISTORY OF WARFARE EMPHASIZING THE BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS -- CROP VIRUSES AND VIRUS DISEASES: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE -- PLANT VIRUSES IN EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE: CURRENT PROBLEMS AND FUTURE ASPECTS -- SIGNIFICANT WAYS TO SPREAD PLANT VIRUS DISEASES IN AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS: IS AGROTERRORISM POSSIBLE? -- SOIL-BORNE VIRUSES OF CROP PLANTS{8212}POTENTIAL AGENTS FOR BIOTERRORIST ATTACKS? -- GENOMIC APPROACHES IN VIRUS DIAGNOSTICS A PERSONAL ASSESSMENT OF REALITIES WHEN FACED WITH VIRUSES IN A PLANT BIOSECURITY CONTEXT -- MOLECULAR METHODS FOR DETECTION AND QUANTITATION OF VIRUS IN APHIDS -- THE USE OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES IN PLANT PROTECTION AND FOR STUDYING VIRUS-INDUCED PATHOGENIC PROCESSES -- IDENTIFICATION OF PLANT HOST FACTORS INTERACTING WITH VIRUSES: NOVEL TARGETS FOR VIRUS CONTROL -- CURRENT VIEWS ON HOST COMPONENTS INVOLVED IN PLANT VIRUS INTERCELLULAR TRAFFICKING -- ABIOTIC ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS: EFFECTS ON EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PLANT VIRUS INFECTIONS -- SOMACLONAL VARIATION AS A SOURCE OF TOMATO SPOTTED WILT VIRUS-RESISTANCE IN PLANTS
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Reflects the concerns expressed by experts from 12 states (including many from Slavic regions adjoining or aspiring to membership of the European Union). This book focuses on the indirect impacts on human health and welfare through challenge to the security of food supplies