Plant Virus Research Studies

This study uses deep-learning structural modeling and divergence dating to analyze RdRps from plant and fungal viruses, revealing a recent divergence of sobelivirads and suggesting cross-kingdom host shifts in their evolutionary history.

The paper identifies a novel begomovirus betasatellite and a viral complex associated with leaf curl disease in Bhut Jolokia, confirming the presence of multiple viruses through DAS-ELISA and PCR.

This study shows that TOR inhibition improves autophagic flux and immune response in tomato plants infected with PSTVd, reducing viroid accumulation and enhancing defense gene expression.

This study examines TSWV protein localization and interactions in plant and insect cells, revealing distinct patterns and interaction networks across species.

The paper shows that co-infection of sugar beet with beet chlorosis virus (BChV) and beet yellows virus (BYV) reduces BChV transmission by ~50% without affecting BYV transmission, due to virus-virus interactions altering intracellular distribution.

This study identifies novel RNA viruses associated with the corn leafhopper Dalbulus maidis using high-throughput sequencing, revealing their phylogenetic relationships and potential ecological significance.

The paper identifies new and variant Potyviruses in Asparagales plants from a Dutch urban botanic garden using smallRNA-seq and RNA-seq.

The paper investigates how epigenetic modifications in Arabidopsis thaliana affect the evolution of Turnip Mosaic Virus, identifying gene expression patterns and viral targets.

The paper identifies a new Polerovirus species in Asparagaceae plants through RNA-seq and smallRNA-seq, distinguishing it from known viruses by its P0 protein sequence.

This study discovers a new Phenuivirus species in Lachenalia plants and identifies co-evolutionary patterns in RNA sequence motifs.

The paper describes the discovery of a new Betaflexivirus species in Ferraria crispa plants through smallRNA-seq and RNA-seq analysis.

This study compares RNAi and PTI antiviral responses to dsRNA in Nicotiana benthamiana, finding that virus-specific dsRNA effectively blocks virus spread while nonspecific dsRNA only reduces local accumulation but fails to prevent systemic infection.

The paper identifies a new insect-specific flavivirus in aphids and shows that plant pathogens like PLRV and CLas suppress insect antiviral immunity against related viruses.

This study identifies key factors for efficient Agrobacterium-VIGS in sunflowers and introduces a novel protocol with improved silencing efficiency and tissue-specific TRV mobility insights.

The paper identifies a new Tombusviridae genus, Rimosavirus, based on long 5' UTRs and unique gene organization features across twelve viral genomes.

This study investigates how HSVd viroid infection affects heterochromatin in Cucumis sativus by analyzing changes in H3K9me2 and H3K27me3 epigenetic marks and their transcriptional targets.

WYMV P2 protein acts as a VSR by interfering with CaM-CAMTA3 interaction to enhance virus systemic infection in wheat.

This study shows ToBRFV is widely detected in environmental samples, highlighting the need for contextual information to interpret test results accurately.

The paper uses RT-PCR to detect potexvirus diversity in seagrasses, finding limited diversity with five TVX variants in Thalassia testudinum from the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

The study mutates the P40 gene of Wineberry latent virus and shows it greatly reduces virus multiplication.

The paper investigates how SEGS-1 episomes affect cassava mosaic disease severity in different cassava cultivars, showing cultivar-dependent effects and identifying functional regions of SEGS-1.

This study identifies a novel ilarvirus protein, CP-RT, produced via stop codon readthrough, which suppresses RNA silencing and is essential for persistent infection.

This study identifies 17 viruses in saffron samples using metatranscriptomic analysis, revealing new viral families and highlighting the complexity of the saffron virome.

This study shows that metabolic enzymes act as autophagy receptors in plants to degrade defense executors during viral infection, revealing autophagy as a tolerance pathway rather than an antiviral defense.

This paper develops an ALSV-based VIGS method for functional genomics in quinoa, showing it can silence genes and induce phenotypes in two quinoa varieties.

The study examines how genetic diversity in aphid populations affects the transmission efficiency of barley yellow dwarf virus, finding significant variation in R. padi but not S. avenae.

This study investigates ToBRFV longevity in soil and virion stability across pH levels, finding that virus infectivity declines over time and is reduced by alkaline treatments.

The paper investigates how the CMV 2b protein interacts with AGO1 and 1a protein, finding that residues 56-60 influence these interactions but no single residue is solely responsible.

The paper uses high-throughput RNA sequencing to identify multiple viruses in symptomatic Hibiscus plants, revealing both known and novel viral species.