Virology & Mycology
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0517
ISSN: 2161-0517
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Research Article
Understanding the Molecular Prospective of Plant Virus Transmission via Insect Vectors
Author(s): Syed Shoaib Mubashir*
The best delineated and well-studied plant viral insect vectors include aphids, whiteflies, leafhoppers, plant hoppers and trips. In addition for being the carriers of transmission, insects play a vital role in the infection cycle of many plant viruses. Plant viruses have developed a number of strategies to gain efficient transmission via insect vectors from one individual plant to the next. Most of them have adapted the capsid strategy (Cucumovirus, Crinivirus) and helper component strategies (Caulimovirus, Potyvirus) with variations between different virus genera. Consequently, there is necessity of protein–protein interface between the viruses and their specific vectors to determine acquisition from infected plants and their transmission to healthy hosts. With the development of molecular biology, mutagenesis and reverse genetics have facilitated the accurate identification o.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2161-0517.22.11.236