Highlights•The begomovirus immune suppressor NSP counters the activation of a
translational control mechanism in antiviral immunity.•The receptor-like kinase NIK1 …

Plants recognize viral infection via an immune receptor, ie, nucleotide-binding site (NB)-
leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins. Another immune receptor, receptor-like kinase proteins …

Plant viruses, the simple obligate intracellular parasites with small genomes, rely entirely on
host machineries for their life cycle including replication, intracellular (cell-to-cell) and …

Background Among the environmental limitations that affect plant growth, viruses cause
major crop losses worldwide and represent serious threats to food security. Significant …

Plants respond to pathogens using elaborate networks of genetic interactions. Recently,
significant progress has been made in understanding RNA silencing and how viruses …

Viral invasion and host defense: strategies and counter-strategies Page 1 336 Viral
invasion and host defense: strategies and counter-strategies James C Carrington* and …

Plants have evolved sophisticated surveillance and defense mechanisms against constant
attacks by different types of microbial pathogens including viruses. Nucleotide-based RNA …

Plant viruses are biotrophic pathogens that need living tissue for their multiplication and
thus, in the infection–defence equilibrium, they do not normally cause plant death. In some …

Double infections of related or unrelated viruses frequently occur in single plants, the viral
agents being inoculated into the host plant simultaneously (co‐infection) or sequentially …

Viruses, causal agents of devastating diseases in plants, are obligate intracellular
pathogens composed of a nucleic acid genome and a limited number of viral proteins. The …