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Viral Transport in Plants

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Part of the book series: Plant Cell Monographs (CELLMONO, volume 7)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Virus Transmission—Getting Out and In

    • Stéphane Blanc
    Pages 1-28
  3. Tubule-Guided Movement of Plant Viruses

    • Christophe Ritzenthaler, Christina Hofmann
    Pages 63-83
  4. Spread Throughout the Plant: Systemic Transport of Viruses

    • Shoko Ueki, Vitaly Citovsky
    Pages 85-118
  5. Intracellular and Intercellular Transport of Viroids

    • Biao Ding, Asuka Itaya
    Pages 119-126
  6. Production and Transport of the Silencing Signal in Transgenic and Virus-Infected Plant Systems

    • Thomas Hohn, Rashid Akbergenov, Mikhail M. Pooggin
    Pages 127-157
  7. An Emerging Model System: Arabidopsis as a Viral Host Plant

    • Tyrell Carr, Steven A. Whitham
    Pages 159-183
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 185-188

About this book

Intercellular communication in plants plays pivotal roles in coordination and control of development and defence responses and involves the trafficking of RNA and protein macromolecules through cytoplasmic cell wall channels termed plasmodesmata. Viruses pirate this existing macromolecular transport pathway to spread infection and, therefore, represent important tools to investigate the cellular mechanisms that govern intercellular communication. The book provides a state of the art overview of the intricate functional virus:host relationships that allow a virus or viroid to move cell-to-cell and systemically through the plant, as well as from plant to plant, and, thus, to spread infection. The book also illustrates the mechanisms by which viruses overcome plant defence responses, such as RNA silencing. Arabidopsis is introduced as a plant host eminently suitable for genetic approaches to identify novel players in plant:virus interactions.

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