Viruses are nanoscale entities containing a nucleic acid genome encased in a protein shell
called a capsid and in some cases are surrounded by a lipid bilayer membrane. This review …

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 …

Small RNA-mediated RNA silencing is an important antiviral mechanism in higher plants. It
has been shown that RNA silencing components can be upregulated by viral infection …

Virus-like particle (VLP) technology is a promising approach for the construction of novel
vaccines, diagnostic tools, and gene therapy vectors. Initially, VLPs were primarily derived …

Viruses are remarkable nanomachines that efficiently hijack cellular functions to replicate
and self-assemble their components within a complex biological environment. As all steps of …

Virus diseases are among the key limiting factors that cause significant yield loss and
continuously threaten crop production. Resistant cultivars coupled with pesticide application …

It was once believed that the sole biological function of viral coat protein (CP) is to
encapsidate the viral genome, protecting it from degradation. The past several decades …

We demonstrate here that both coat protein (CP) phosphorylation by protein kinase CK2 and
a chaperone system formed by two heat shock proteins, CP-interacting protein (CPIP) and …

Coat proteins (CPs) of RNA plant viruses play a pivotal role in virus particle assembly, vector
transmission, host identification, RNA replication, and intracellular and intercellular …

The three subsets of virions that comprise the Brome mosaic virus (BMV) were previously
thought to be indistinguishable. This work tested the hypothesis that distinct capsid-RNA …