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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_plant_viruses
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1 Problems associated with viral transmission 2 Natural transmission between plant hosts 3 Transmission between plant cells 4 External links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_plant_viruses
The main mechanisms involve expressing proteins which coat the virus and interact with the structure of the plasmodesmata. The array of proteins expressed by the different viruses may act differently but all achieve a similar goal, passage between adjacent cells.
External links
MicrobiologyBytes: Plant viruses (http://www.microbiologybytes.com/virology/Plant.html) Vectors of Plant Viruses (http://plpnemweb.ucdavis.edu/nemaplex/Plntpara/pltvirus.htm) Descriptions of Plant Viruses (http://www.dpvweb.net/intro/index.php) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transmission_of_plant_viruses&oldid=544300547" Categories: Viruses This page was last modified on 15 March 2013 at 06:48. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
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