Viruses are acellular pathogens that cause severe infections in plants, resulting in
worldwide crop losses every year. The lack of chemical agents to control viral diseases …

Land plants host a vast and diverse virome that is dominated by RNA viruses, with major
additional contributions from reverse-transcribing and single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses …

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an RNA interference-based technology used to
transiently knock down target gene expression by utilizing modified plant viral genomes …

Although the phloem is a highly specialized tissue, certain pathogens, including
phytoplasmas, spiroplasmas, and viruses, have evolved to access and live in this …

Cassava common mosaic virus (CsCMV, genus Potexvirus) is a prevalent virus associated
with cassava mosaic disease, so it is essential to elucidate the underlying molecular …

Plant viruses cannot exploit any of the membrane fusion-based routes of entry described for
animal viruses. In addition, one of the distinctive structures of plant cells, the cell wall, acts as …

Over a hundred years of research on plant viruses has led to a detailed understanding of
viral replication, movement, and host–virus interactions. The functions of vast viral genes …

A founding paradigm in virology is that the spatial unit of the viral replication cycle is an
individual cell. Multipartite viruses have a segmented genome where each segment is …

As obligate intracellular phytopathogens, plant viruses must take advantage of hosts
plasmodesmata and phloem vasculature for their local and long-distance transports to …

To establish infection, plant viruses are evolutionarily empowered with the ability to spread
intercellularly. Potyviruses represent the largest group of known plant‐infecting RNA viruses …