Melting a bacteriophage’s coat of proteins turns it into a tiny power plant, which could fire up the discovery ... While the voltage that the researchers detected by heating the viruses was small, ...

When a mother plant with a virus makes, for example, 100 seeds, only between 0 and 5% of the seedlings are likely to become infected. For a century, scientists have wondered how the 'mothers' are ...

In fact, there are a number of viruses present in plants that do not cause visible disease symptoms – and we still have a great deal to learn about the role they play. While the complete picture ...

AT the Cheshunt Research Station, a study is being made of the interaction of environmental factors on the virus diseases of ... widespread infection in crop plants too large to make replacement ...

Safer and more broadly effective rotavirus vaccines could be achieved if initial investigations 1 into the boosting effect of plant-derived virus-like particles hold up in further trials.

“The study is a proof of concept that CRISPR/Cas9 can be used to destroy DNA viruses and block viral infection and disease progression,” said Yinong Yang, who studies molecular plant-microbe ...

Plant viral diseases are a global and growing problem. Potyviruses are the largest genus of RNA viruses in plants. We are interested in molecular elucidation of the different stages of potyvirus ...