ii Baoan Song Song Yang Linhong Jin Pinaki S. Bhadury Environment-Friendly Antiviral Agents for Plants iii Baoan Song Song Yang Linhong Jin Pinaki S. Bhadury Environment-Friendly Antiviral Agents for Plants With 110 figures JW Authors Baoan Song Center for R&D of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University Guiyang 550025, China E-mail:
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[email protected] ISBN 978-7-122-04811-0 Chemical Industry Press, Beijing ISBN 978-3-642-03691-0 e-ISBN 978-3-642-03692-7 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009931956 © Chemical Industry Press, Beijing and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: Frido Steinen-Broo, EStudio Calamar, Spain Printed on acid-free paper Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) ii W Foreword Plant virus is often referred to as Āplant cancerā which is considered to be a serious threat to agricultural production. For example, the breakout of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) could cause billion dollars of agricultural loss world-wide. Viruses such as the genus Tospovirus of the family Bunyaviridae and the genus Begonovirus of family Geminiviridae are also destructive to vegetable plantation. Since