Viruses were defined as one of the two principal types of organisms in the biosphere,
namely, as capsid-encoding organisms in contrast to ribosome-encoding organisms, ie, all …

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 seminal text Plant Virology is now in its fifth edition. It has been 10 years since the
publication of the fourth edition, during which there has been an explosion of conceptual …

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 …

The Caulimoviridae is a family of double-stranded DNA viruses that infect plants. The
genomes of most vascular plants contain endogenous caulimovirids (ECVs), a class of …

The extent and importance of endogenous viral elements have been extensively described
in animals but are much less well understood in plants. Here we describe a new genus of …

Phytoviruses are highly prevalent in plants worldwide, including vegetables and fruits.
Humans, and more generally animals, are exposed daily to these viruses, among which …

Roditis leaf discoloration (RLD), a graft-transmissible disease of grapevine, was first
reported in Greece in the 1980s. Even though various native grapevine viruses were …

Highlights•Plant pararetroviruses share properties with mammalian retroviruses.•As many as
nine genera of plant pararetroviruses now described.•Unusual translation mechanism 1 …

Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) are viral sequences that are integrated in the nuclear
genomes of their hosts and are signatures of viral infections that may have occurred millions …