RNA viruses: Reverse transcription in plants?

How RNA Interference Combat Viruses in Plants

RNA-protein interactions in hepadnavirus reverse transcription.

The small DNA genome of hepadnaviruses is replicated by reverse transcription via an RNA intermediate. This RNA "pregenome" contains important signals that control critical steps of viral replication, including RNA packaging, initiation of reverse transcription, and elongation of minus strand DNA, through specific interactions with the viral reverse transcriptase, the capsid protein, and host f...

Recombination in RNA viruses and in virus-resistant transgenic plants.

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The reverse genetics applied to fish RNA viruses

Aquaculture has expanded rapidly to become a major economic and food-producing sector worldwide these last 30 years. In parallel, viral diseases have emerged and rapidly spread from farm to farm causing enormous economic losses. The most problematic viruses encountered in the field are mainly, but not exclusively, RNA viruses belonging to the Novirhabdovirus, Aquabirnavirus, Alphavirus and Beta...

Reverse genetics of negative-strand RNA viruses: closing the circle.

The study of viruses and their interactions with host cells and organisms has benefited greatly from the ability to engineer specific mutations into viral genomes, a technique known as reverse genetics. Genome manipulations of DNA viruses, either by transfecting cells with plasmids encoding the viral genome (1) or by heterologous recombination of plasmids bearing viral sequences with the virus ...