Despite the rapid mutational change that is typical of positive-strand RNA viruses, enzymes
mediating the replication and expression of virus genomes contain arrays of conserved …

Grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV) is responsible for fan-leaf degeneration, which is one of the
most severe virus diseases of grapevines worldwide. GFLV causes substantial crop losses …

An efficient procedure for the extraction of high-quality RNA from woody plants without the
use of phenol, organic solvents, or alcohol precipitation is described. The method employs …

Although nematodes had long been suspected as vectors of soil borne plant diseases,
unequivocal proof of their implication was not forthcoming until 1958 when Professor William …

Many viruses express their genome, or part of their genome, initially as a polyprotein
precursor that undergoes proteolytic processing. Molecular genetic analyses of viral gene …

The histone fold motif has previously been Identified as a structural feature common to all
four core histones and is involved In both histone-histone and histone-DNA Interactions …

Genetically transformed grapevines were obtained through co-cultivation of embryogenic
cell suspensions with an engineered A. tumefaciens strain. Two economically important …

The viral determinants involved in the specific transmission of Grapevine fanleaf virus
(GFLV) by its nematode vector Xiphinema index are located within the 513 C-terminal …

Plant-infecting viruses of the genus Nepovirus (subfamily Comovirinae, family Secoviridae,
order Picornavirales) are bipartite positive-strand RNA viruses with each genomic RNA …

One of the major environmental safety issues over transgenic crops containing virus-derived
genes relates to the outcome of recombination events between viral transgene transcripts …