• Reviews the implementation of best practices to reduce the risk of virus spread in apple orchards
• Provides a detailed overview of key viruses affecting banana production, such as banana bunchy top virus and banana bract mosaic virus
• Addresses the modes of transmission and spread of Apple mosaic virus

Contributions by: Kenneth C. Eastwell, Washington State University, USA; Karel Petrzik, Biology Centre CAS, Czech Republic; Manuel Rubio, Federico Dicenta and Pedro Martínez-Gómez, CEBAS-CSIC, Spain; H. Czosnek, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; A. Koren, Hishtil Nursery, Israel; and F. Vidavski, Tomatech R&D, Israel; John E. Thomas, The University of Queensland, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Australia; Andrew D. W. Geering, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Australia