DNA methylation dynamics in response to abiotic and pathogen stress in plants

H Arora, RK Singh, S Sharma, N Sharma, A Panchal… - Plant cell reports, 2022 - Springer
DNA methylation is a dynamic epigenetic mechanism that plays a significant role in gene
expression and also maintains chromatin stability. The process is conserved in both plants …

RNA interference: a natural immune system of plants to counteract biotic stressors

T Muhammad, F Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Liang - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
During plant-pathogen interactions, plants have to defend the living transposable elements
from pathogens. In response to such elements, plants activate a variety of defense …

Plant responses to geminivirus infection: guardians of the plant immunity

N Gupta, K Reddy, D Bhattacharyya, S Chakraborty✉ - Virology journal, 2021 - Springer
Background Geminiviruses are circular, single-stranded viruses responsible for enormous
crop loss worldwide. Rapid expansion of geminivirus diversity outweighs the continuous …

Plant antiviral immunity against geminiviruses and viral counter-defense for survival

RV Kumar - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The family Geminiviridae includes plant-infecting viruses whose genomes are composed of
one or two circular non-enveloped ssDNAs (+) of about 2.5–5.2 kb each in size. These …

The role of miRNA in plant–virus interaction: a review

AA Mengistu, TA Tenkegna - Molecular Biology Reports, 2021 - Springer
Plant viruses affect crop production both quantitatively and qualitatively. The viral genome
consists of either DNA or RNA. However, most plant viruses are positive single-strand RNA …

Natural resistance of tomato plants to Tomato yellow leaf curl virus

A H. El-Sappah, S Qi, S A. Soaud, Q Huang… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is one of the most harmful afflictions in the world that
affects tomato growth and production. Six regular antagonistic genes (Ty-1, Ty-2, Ty-3, Ty-4 …

RNA-Seq Transcriptome Analysis Provides Candidate Genes for Resistance to Tomato Leaf Curl New Delhi Virus in Melon

C Sáez, A Flores-León, J Montero-Pau… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV) emerged in the Mediterranean Basin in 2012
as the first DNA bipartite begomovirus (Geminiviridae family), causing severe yield and …

Insights into the multifunctional roles of geminivirus-encoded proteins in pathogenesis

R Devendran, T Namgial, KK Reddy, M Kumar… - Archives of …, 2022 - Springer
Geminiviruses are a major threat to agriculture in tropical and subtropical regions of the
world. Geminiviruses have small genome with limited coding capacity. Despite this …

Virus and viroid-derived small RNAs as modulators of host gene expression: molecular insights into pathogenesis

SV Ramesh, S Yogindran, P Gnanasekaran… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Virus-derived siRNAs (vsiRNAs) generated by the host RNA silencing mechanism are
effectors of plant's defense response and act by targeting the viral RNA and DNA in post …

Genomic variation and diversification in begomovirus genome in implication to host and vector adaptation

D Nigam - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Begomoviruses (family Geminiviridae, genus Begomovirus) are DNA viruses transmitted in a
circulative, persistent manner by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). As revealed by …