2024
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture14020282
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When an Intruder Comes Home: GM and GE Strategies to Combat Virus Infection in Plants

Adeeb Rahman,
Neeti Sanan-Mishra

Abstract: Viruses are silent enemies that intrude and take control of the plant cell’s machinery for their own multiplication. Infection by viruses and the resulting damage is still a major challenge in the agriculture sector. Plants have the capability to fight back, but the ability of viruses to mutate at a fast rate helps them to evade the host’s response. Therefore, classical approaches for introgressing resistance genes by breeding have obtained limited success in counteracting the virus menace. Genetic modificatio… Show more

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