Viral Infections & Virology

Plant–Virus–Vector Interactions

Plant viruses can interact with their insect host in a variety of ways including both non-persistent and circulative transmission; in some cases, the latter involves virus replication in cells of the insect host. Replicating viruses can also elicit both innate and specific defense responses in the insect host

Some of the genes of the host plants found to express themselves on viral infection may have a connection with the developmental defects and symptoms of disease. Viruses interfere in the signaling pathways and hence affect plant growth and development.