Virology: Current Research

Recognizing Significant Research Findings Woven throughout the History of Plant Viruses, Particularly the Tobacco Mosaic Virus

Abstract

Shobith Suresh, Aniket Angira, V. K. Baranwal and Nandlal Choudhary*

Since the discovery of plant virus, it has great impact on plant sciences and human society. Therefore, to understand this new pathogen it was characterized at biochemical, structural, and molecular level. Many analytical research techniques were developed over the period to reveal the mystery of plant viruses. In this review, we presented the development of plant virus research in different phases. The 1^st or early phase of research described the discovery of plant viruses as a new pathogens, 2^nd biological phase described the mode of virus spread and its relation with the vector, 3^rd biochemical and biophysical phase described how to purify and characterize the plant viruses, 4^th molecular biology phases described the heredity and other functions at molecular level, 5^th molecular genetics described the position and function of individual genes of viral genome, gene cloning and gene silencing methods and finally, 6^th diagnostics and management phases described the modern techniques for specific detection of plant viruses and their prophylaxis, genetic resistance and control of plant