Biodiversity and occurrence of plant viruses over four decades: Case study for Iraq

During the past 35 years, Iraq has invested a tremendous amount of resources to develop a modern agricultural system. This effort has resulted in a leap, particularly, in cereal and vegetable production that met up to 70% of the nation's demands in 1990s. Since 2003, the percent has dropped to score 35% in the year 2010 due to political unrest. Although the agricultural system has been extremely a...