Comparative Plant Virology. Edition No. 2

Elsevier Science and Technology, January 2009, Pages: 400

Comparative Plant Virology provides a complete overview of our current knowledge of plant viruses including background information on plant viruses and up-to-date aspects of virus biology and control. It deals mainly with concepts rather than detail. The focus will be on plant viruses but due to the changing environment of how virology is taught, comparisons will be drawn with viruses of other kingdomes, animals, fungi and bacteria. It has been written for students of plant virology, plant pathology, virology and microbiology who have no previous knowledge of plant viruses or of virology in general.

Boxes highlight important information such as virus definition and taxonomy.
Includes profiles of 32 plant viruses that feature extensively in the text
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Introduction, symptoms and classification
Overview of plant viruses: profiles of important and model viruses
Plant virus origins and evolution
Structure and composition
Genome organization
Virus-dependent agents, viroids and phytoplasma
Expression of viral genomes
Replication of viral genomes
Virus-host interactions: plant level
Virus-plant interactions: molecular level
Plant to plant movement
Epidemiology and ecology
Virus diagnosis
Conventional control
Transgenic control and uses

Hull, Roger

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