Replication and intercellular spread of viruses depend on host mechanisms supporting the
formation, transport and turnover of functional complexes between viral genomes, virus …

Phloem transport of plant viruses is an essential step in the setting-up of a complete infection
of a host plant. After an initial replication step in the first cells, viruses spread from cell-to-cell …

To survive as sedentary organisms built of immobile cells, plants require an effective
intercellular communication system, both locally between neighbouring cells within each …

Plant viruses are a class of plant pathogens that specialize in movement from cell to cell. As
part of their arsenal for infection of plants, every virus encodes a movement protein (MP), a …

The symplastic communication network established by plasmodesmata (PD) and connected
phloem provides an essential pathway for spatiotemporal intercellular signaling in plant …

Virus movement proteins facilitate virus entry into the vascular system to initiate systemic
infection. The potato mop-top virus (PMTV) movement protein, TGB1, is involved in long …

Plant viruses exploit the endomembrane system of infected cells for their replication and cell-
to-cell transport. The replication of viral RNA genomes occurs in the cytoplasm in …

To establish systemic infection, plant viruses must be localized to the correct subcellular
sites to accomplish replication and then traffic from initially infected cells into neighboring …

For plant viruses, the ability to load into the vascular phloem and spread systemically within
a host is an essential step in establishing a successful infection. However, access to the …

Background The potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida has biotrophic interactions with its
host. The nematode induces a feeding structure–the syncytium–which it keeps alive for the …