TY - JOUR
T1 - The big unknown
T2 - Plant virus biodiversity
AU - Roossinck, Marilyn J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported partly by the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation , and by the National Science Foundation grant number EF-0627108 , EPS-0447262 and EPS-0950579 ; and The United States Department of Agriculture grant number OKLR-2007-01012 .
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - Studies on plant virus biodiversity are in their infancy, but with new technologies we can expect to see more information about novel plant viruses in the near future. The challenge for virus biodiversity work is that viruses do not have any universal coding sequence, such as ribosomal RNAs found in all cellular life. These obstacles are being overcome in clever ways. Understanding what exists in our natural environment will help us to tackle big issues in agriculture, such as disease emergence and the use of beneficial viruses and other microbes.
AB - Studies on plant virus biodiversity are in their infancy, but with new technologies we can expect to see more information about novel plant viruses in the near future. The challenge for virus biodiversity work is that viruses do not have any universal coding sequence, such as ribosomal RNAs found in all cellular life. These obstacles are being overcome in clever ways. Understanding what exists in our natural environment will help us to tackle big issues in agriculture, such as disease emergence and the use of beneficial viruses and other microbes.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.coviro.2011.05.022
DO - 10.1016/j.coviro.2011.05.022
M3 - Article
C2 - 22440569
AN - SCOPUS:79960470432
SN - 1879-6257
VL - 1
SP - 63
EP - 67
JO - Current Opinion in Virology
JF - Current Opinion in Virology
IS - 1
ER -