Researchers reveal how geminiviruses cause devastating disease in worldwide crops
Published Date: 1/4/2023
Source: phys.org
Geminiviruses are a group of single-stranded circular plant DNA viruses that cause devastating diseases in many economically important crops including tomato, tobacco, cotton, corn, wheat, beans, and cassava worldwide. Due to their small genome size and limited coding capacity, geminiviruses rely heavily on host plants to complete their life cycle by exploiting/manipulating host components at different cellular levels.