The accurate classification of viral dark matter–metagenomic sequences that originate from
viruses but do not align to any reference virus sequences–is one of the major obstacles in …

Agriculture faces the unprecedented task of feeding a world population of 9 billion people by
2050 while simultaneously avoiding harmful environmental and social effects. One effort to …

Petunia hybrida is a popular bedding plant that has a long history as a genetic model
system. We report the whole-genome sequencing and assembly of inbred derivatives of its …

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 …

Badnaviruses (Family: Caulimoviridae; Genus: Badnavirus) are non-enveloped bacilliform
DNA viruses with a monopartite genome containing about 7.2 to 9.2 kb of dsDNA with three …

Plant viruses are thought to be essentially harmful to the lives of their cultivated crop hosts.
In most cases studied, the interaction between viruses and cultivated crop plants negatively …

The majority of eukaryotic genomes contain a large fraction of repetitive sequences that
primarily originate from transpositional bursts of transposable elements (TEs). Repbase …

Caulimoviridae is a family of non-enveloped reverse-transcribing plant viruses with non-
covalently closed circular dsDNA genomes of 7.1–9.8 kbp in the order Ortervirales. They …

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies have become indispensable tools
assisting plant virus diagnostics and research thanks to their ability to detect any plant virus …

Highlights•Horizontal transfer of genetic material (especially transposable elements)
between eukaryotes is more frequent than previously thought.•Host-to-virus horizontal …