DNA methylation is a dynamic epigenetic mechanism that plays a significant role in gene
expression and also maintains chromatin stability. The process is conserved in both plants …

During plant-pathogen interactions, plants have to defend the living transposable elements
from pathogens. In response to such elements, plants activate a variety of defense …

Background Geminiviruses are circular, single-stranded viruses responsible for enormous
crop loss worldwide. Rapid expansion of geminivirus diversity outweighs the continuous …

The family Geminiviridae includes plant-infecting viruses whose genomes are composed of
one or two circular non-enveloped ssDNAs (+) of about 2.5–5.2 kb each in size. These …

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is one of the most harmful afflictions in the world that
affects tomato growth and production. Six regular antagonistic genes (Ty-1, Ty-2, Ty-3, Ty-4 …

Plant viruses affect crop production both quantitatively and qualitatively. The viral genome
consists of either DNA or RNA. However, most plant viruses are positive single-strand RNA …

Geminiviruses are a major threat to agriculture in tropical and subtropical regions of the
world. Geminiviruses have small genome with limited coding capacity. Despite this …

Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV) emerged in the Mediterranean Basin in 2012
as the first DNA bipartite begomovirus (Geminiviridae family), causing severe yield and …

Virus-derived siRNAs (vsiRNAs) generated by the host RNA silencing mechanism are
effectors of plant's defense response and act by targeting the viral RNA and DNA in post …

Begomoviruses (family Geminiviridae, genus Begomovirus) are DNA viruses transmitted in a
circulative, persistent manner by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). As revealed by …