| Evolution and ecology of plant viruses P Lefeuvre, DP Martin, SF Elena, DN Shepherd, P Roumagnac, A Varsani Nature Reviews Microbiology 17 (10), 632-644, 2019 | 200 | 2019 |
| Maize streak virus: an old and complex ‘emerging’pathogen DN Shepherd, DP Martin, E Van Der Walt, K Dent, A Varsani, EP Rybicki Molecular plant pathology 11 (1), 1-12, 2010 | 171 | 2010 |
| Recombination, decreased host specificity and increased mobility may have driven the emergence of maize streak virus as an agricultural pathogen A Varsani, DN Shepherd, AL Monjane, BE Owor, JB Erdmann, EP Rybicki, ... Journal of General Virology 89 (9), 2063-2074, 2008 | 159 | 2008 |
| A protocol for the rapid isolation of full geminivirus genomes from dried plant tissue DN Shepherd, DP Martin, P Lefeuvre, AL Monjane, BE Owor, EP Rybicki, ... Journal of virological methods 149 (1), 97-102, 2008 | 145 | 2008 |
| The epidemiology, economic impact and control of maize streak disease DP Martin, DN Shepherd Food Security 1, 305-315, 2009 | 113 | 2009 |
| Transgenic strategies for developing crops resistant to geminiviruses DN Shepherd, DP Martin, JA Thomson Plant Science 176 (1), 1-11, 2009 | 113 | 2009 |
| Successful application of FTA® Classic Card technology and use of bacteriophage ϕ29 DNA polymerase for large-scale field sampling and cloning of complete maize streak virus genomes BE Owor, DN Shepherd, NJ Taylor, R Edema, AL Monjane, JA Thomson, ... Journal of virological methods 140 (1-2), 100-105, 2007 | 92 | 2007 |
| A highly divergent South African geminivirus species illuminates the ancient evolutionary history of this family A Varsani, DN Shepherd, K Dent, AL Monjane, EP Rybicki, DP Martin Virology Journal 6, 1-12, 2009 | 90 | 2009 |
| Maize streak virus‐resistant transgenic maize: a first for Africa DN Shepherd, T Mangwende, DP Martin, M Bezuidenhout, FJ Kloppers, ... Plant Biotechnology Journal 5 (6), 759-767, 2007 | 85 | 2007 |
| Genetic analysis of maize streak virus isolates from Uganda reveals widespread distribution of a recombinant variant BE Owor, DP Martin, DN Shepherd, R Edema, AL Monjane, EP Rybicki, ... Journal of general virology 88 (11), 3154-3165, 2007 | 83 | 2007 |
| A high degree of African streak virus diversity within Nigerian maize fields includes a new mastrevirus from Axonopus compressus S Oluwafemi, S Kraberger, DN Shepherd, DP Martin, A Varsani Archives of virology 159, 2765-2770, 2014 | 82 | 2014 |
| Reconstructing the history of maize streak virus strain a dispersal to reveal diversification hot spots and its origin in southern Africa AL Monjane, GW Harkins, DP Martin, P Lemey, P Lefeuvre, DN Shepherd, ... Journal of virology 85 (18), 9623-9636, 2011 | 80 | 2011 |
| Experimental evidence indicating that mastreviruses probably did not co-diverge with their hosts GW Harkins, W Delport, S Duffy, N Wood, AL Monjane, BE Owor, ... Virology Journal 6, 1-14, 2009 | 73 | 2009 |
| Dating the origins of the maize-adapted strain of maize streak virus, MSV-A GW Harkins, DP Martin, S Duffy, AL Monjane, DN Shepherd, OP Windram, ... Journal of general virology 90 (12), 3066-3074, 2009 | 69 | 2009 |
| Molecular characterisation of a novel cassava associated circular ssDNA virus A Dayaram, A Opong, A Jäschke, J Hadfield, M Baschiera, RCJ Dobson, ... Virus research 166 (1-2), 130-135, 2012 | 64 | 2012 |
| A three-nucleotide mutation altering the Maize streak virus Rep pRBR-interaction motif reduces symptom severity in maize and partially reverts at high frequency … DN Shepherd, DP Martin, DR McGivern, MI Boulton, JA Thomson, ... Journal of general virology 86 (3), 803-813, 2005 | 56 | 2005 |
| Inhibition of maize streak virus (MSV) replication by transient and transgenic expression of MSV replication-associated protein mutants DN Shepherd, T Mangwende, DP Martin, M Bezuidenhout, JA Thomson, ... Journal of general virology 88 (1), 325-336, 2007 | 51 | 2007 |
| Evidence of pervasive biologically functional secondary structures within the genomes of eukaryotic single-stranded DNA viruses BM Muhire, M Golden, B Murrell, P Lefeuvre, JM Lett, A Gray, AYF Poon, ... Journal of virology 88 (4), 1972-1989, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| Complete sequences of tomato leaf curl Palampur virus isolates infecting cucurbits in Iran J Heydarnejad, A Mozaffari, H Massumi, R Fazeli, AJA Gray, S Meredith, ... Archives of virology 154, 1015-1018, 2009 | 45 | 2009 |
| Replicative intermediates of maize streak virus found during leaf development JB Erdmann, DN Shepherd, DP Martin, A Varsani, EP Rybicki, H Jeske Journal of general virology 91 (4), 1077-1081, 2010 | 40 | 2010 |
Darren MartinUniversity of Cape TownVerified email at uct.ac.za
