An antibody-based probe enables visualization of active viral replication in living cells
Plant Science Research WeeklyOne of the main challenges in plant virology is detecting the active replicase enzyme of positive-strand RNA viruses in living cells, since adding fluorescent tags often prevents it from functioning. A recent study in Plant Physiology by Ishihara et al. has found a way around this problem. The researchers…
Review. Under siege: virus control in plant meristems and progeny (Plant Cell)
Plant Science Research WeeklyPerhaps, when our lives have been turned upside down by a human pathogenic virus, it’s easy to overlook the fact that plants too suffer from viral infections; but of course, they do. (And of course, famously, viruses were first discovered in plants). Although it is difficult to cure a plant of a virus…