The good viruses: viral mutualistic symbioses

MJ Roossinck - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2011 - nature.com
Although viruses are most often studied as pathogens, many are beneficial to their hosts,
providing essential functions in some cases and conditionally beneficial functions in others …

[HTML][HTML] Badnaviruses: the current global scenario

AI Bhat, T Hohn, R Selvarajan - Viruses, 2016 - mdpi.com
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 …

Virus latency and the impact on plants

H Takahashi, T Fukuhara, H Kitazawa… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
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 …

MicroRNA-mediated gene silencing in plant defense and viral counter-defense

SR Liu, JJ Zhou, CG Hu, CL Wei, JZ Zhang - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNAs of approximately 20–24 nucleotides in length
that serve as central regulators of eukaryotic gene expression by targeting mRNAs for …

Plant virus metagenomics: what we know and why we need to know more

AH Stobbe, MJ Roossinck - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
• INTRODUCTIONIn the past decade the concept of plant viruses as strictly disease-causing
entities has been challenged. While the most well-studied and obvious interactions between …

Three infectious viral species lying in wait in the banana genome

M Chabannes, FC Baurens, PO Duroy, S Bocs… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.asm.org
Plant pararetroviruses integrate serendipitously into their host genomes. The banana
genome harbors integrated copies of banana streak virus (BSV) named endogenous BSV …

Emerging and re-emerging diseases caused by badnaviruses

A Ishwara Bhat, R Selvarajan, V Balasubramanian - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
New and emerging plant diseases are caused by different pathogens including viruses that
often cause significant crop losses. Badnaviruses are pararetroviruses that contain a single …

Genome-wide identification of Reverse Transcriptase domains of recently inserted endogenous plant pararetrovirus (Caulimoviridae)

C De Tomás, CM Vicient - Frontiers in plant science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) are viral sequences that have been integrated into the
nuclear chromosomes. Endogenous pararetrovirus (EPRV) are a class of EVEs derived from …

Micropropagation by tissue culture triggers differential expression of infectious endogenous Banana streak virus sequences (eBSV) present in the B genome of …

FX Cote, S Galzi, M Folliot, Y Lamagnère… - Molecular plant …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The genome of Musa balbisiana spp. contains several infectious endogenous sequences of
Banana streak virus (eBSV). We have shown previously that in vitro micropropagation …

Broken, silent, and in hiding: tamed endogenous pararetroviruses escape elimination from the genome of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris)

N Schmidt, KM Seibt, B Weber… - Annals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Endogenous pararetroviruses (EPRVs) are widespread
components of plant genomes that originated from episomal DNA viruses of the …