Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Plant viruses until recently were seen as plant pathogenic entities causing crop losses. Consequently, they were studied from that perspective only. However, recent advances made in molecular biology enabled an entirely a new dimension of plant viruses to emerge out. Plant viruses exhibit an amazing diversity in architecture, genome makeup and reproductive strategies. These facilities have made them to use as ideal tools for biotechnological applications. Biotechnological applications of plant viruses extend in varied fields such as agriculture, horticulture, medicine, pharmacy and nanotechnology. Biotechnological applications in agriculture and horticulture involve enhancing the aesthetics of ornamental plants, cross protection, virus-induced flowering and biological control. Some plant viruses are employed both as carrier vectors and expression vectors. Expression vectors have a great role in vaccinology. Plant virus-derived vectors are developed for virus induced gene silencing and nanotechnology. Virus-based tools have been developed to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 constructs for precise genome editing. Virus-like particles (VLP) are excellent candidate for vaccine production. VLPs also meet the desirable features to be used as nanoparticles which have wide applications in the medical field
Source: Biological Forum
Authors: S. Ram Reddy, G Renuka, P Pallavi
Institution: Kakatiya University
Language: English
Topic: Plant Virus Research Studies
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7127618052