Recent advancement in OMICS approaches to enhance abiotic stress tolerance in legumes.

The world is facing rapid climate change and a fast-growing global population. It is believed that the world population will be 9.7 billion in 2050.

Prevalence, transmission and molecular characterization of Cotton leaf curl Multan virus infecting hollyhock plants in Pakistan.

Background: Hollyhock (Alcea rosea) is an ornamental plant belonging to the Malvaceae family and has a remarkable aesthetic and medicinal value. A number of distinct infectious entity including fungi, nematode, bacteria and most importantly both single and double stranded DNA and RNA viruses are reported from infected hollyhock plant. Begomoviruses, the well reputed member of the family Geminiviridae infected the hollyhock recently with a new hollyhock vein yellowing virus and in the present study it infected the hollyhock plant with Cotton leaf curl Multan virus (CLCuMV) which cause the disease of leaf curling.