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Plant viruses can be pathogenic to vascular plants ("higher plants"). Most plant viruses are rod-shaped, with protein discs forming a tube surrounding the viral genome; isometric particles are another common structure. They rarely have an envelope. The great majority have an RNA genome, which is usually small and single stranded (ss), but some ...
Capsid. Schematic of a cytomegalovirus. Illustration of geometric model changing between two possible capsids. A similar change of size has been observed as the result of a single amino-acid mutation [1] A capsid is the protein shell of a virus, enclosing its genetic material. It consists of several oligomeric (repeating) structural subunits ...
Since viruses are obligate intracellular parasitesthey must develop direct methods of transmission, between hosts, in order to survive. The mobility of animals increases the mechanisms of viral transmission that have evolved, whereas plants remain immobile, and thus plant virusesmust rely on environmental factors to be transmitted between hosts ...
A virus is a tiny infectious agent that reproduces inside the cells of living hosts. When infected, the host cell is forced to rapidly produce thousands of identical copies of the original virus. Unlike most living things, viruses do not have cells that divide; new viruses assemble in the infected host cell. But unlike simpler infectious agents ...
Realms. Adnaviria. Duplodnaviria. Monodnaviria. Riboviria. Ribozyviria. Varidnaviria. A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. [ 1] Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. [ 2][ 3] Viruses are found in almost every ...
Influenza virus life cycle. Entry. Replication. Latency. Shedding. Viruses are only able to replicate themselves by commandeering the reproductive apparatus of cells and making them reproduce the virus's genetic structure and particles instead. How viruses do this depends mainly on the type of nucleic acid DNA or RNA they contain, which is ...
Cucumber mosaic virus ( CMV) is a plant pathogenic virus [1] in the family Bromoviridae. [2] This virus has a worldwide distribution and a very wide host range, [3] having the reputation of the widest host range of any known plant virus. [4] It can be transmitted from plant to plant both mechanically by sap and by aphids in a stylet-borne fashion.
Virus classification. Virus classification is the process of naming viruses and placing them into a taxonomic system similar to the classification systems used for cellular organisms . Viruses are classified by phenotypic characteristics, such as morphology, nucleic acid type, mode of replication, host organisms, and the type of disease they cause.