Manual of Applied Plant Virology

Description

As a major branch of microbiology, plant virology studies plant viruses, aimed at the development of novel antiviral strategies and beneficial uses of viruses. Like all other viruses, Plant Viruses are viruses that affect plants. It obligates intracellular parasites that do not have the molecular machinery to replicate without a host. It can be pathogenic to higher plants. These viruses are extremely small and can only be observed an electron microscope. The structure of virus is coating of proteins, which is surrounded by the viral genome. The main objective to study these viruses is to protect the crop production as they perceived as a health threats to humans, livestock and crop plants. The recent boom in technology allowing humans to manipulate plant viruses may provide new strategies for production of value-added proteins in plants. Studying virology helps to classify many types of viruses that exist but also promotes research to discover new approaches to oppose their harmful outcomes. This book “Manual of Applied Plant Virology” covers all the data in plant pathology, plant virology, general virology and microbiology for all educators and research specialists to fulfill their needs in biotechnology.