Viral Life in Host Plants
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 4565
Special Issue Editors
Interests: viral translation; replication; RNA structure; viral pathogenicity
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Interests: molecular biology of wheat virus diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To provide an additional platform for academic communications on the research of plant viruses, here we set up a Special Issue, entitled “Viral life in host plants”. Plant viruses make up a group of parasitic pathogens that depend on host plants for fulfilling their life cycle, including viral translation, replication, intercellular movement, and so on. Plant virus infections usually damage host plants, leading to a substantial loss of yield and quality of many economic vegetables and crops. Thus, it is important to uncover viral actions in host plants, which will help us to understand somehow viruses cause damages to hosts. The Special Issue welcomes papers related to biological, genetic, and biochemical bases required for infections of plant viruses. We also welcome papers that report newly discovered viruses with a full characterization, and establish methodologies of plant viral diagnosis, and utilize plant viruses as a molecular tool for basic research or practical applications, and so on. Both research and review articles are acceptable for publication.
Prof. Dr. Zhiyou Du
Prof. Dr. Jian Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pathogenicity
- viral translation
- viral replication
- host factor
- viral diagnosis
- virus–host interaction
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