Description

Any of the many agents that can wreak havoc on plants is a plant virus. Due to the fact that many plant viruses affect both crop and ornamental plants, they are extremely important economically. Many plant viruses resemble rods and can be easily removed from plant tissue and crystallised. While all of them include ribonucleic acid (RNA), the majority of them are devoid of the lipid membrane present in many animal viruses. This textbook on viral plant diseases discusses many plant viruses, their characteristics, and the corresponding diseases that these viruses cause. It includes separate chapters that describe many viruses as well as the characteristics of plant viruses with symptoms, composition, morphology, nomenclature, and contemporary categorization. he development of novel methods that are employed to precisely characterise the causative viruses of a number of plant virus illnesses is also covered. It also provides information on plant virus serology and updated virus isolation techniques that enable the classification of viruses into related groups. Ecologists, environmentalists, agriculturalists, and other scientists who are interested in plant viruses will find this book to be of great value. Students studying biology will also benefit from this resource.