Plant viruses traveling without passport.

Cristina Sáez, Israel Pagán

PLoS biology 2024 May

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All plant viruses were thought to encode in its genome a movement protein that acts as a "passport," allowing active movement within the host. A new study in PLOS Biology characterizes the first plant virus that can colonize its host without encoding this protein. Copyright: © 2024 Sáez, Pagán. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.