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Geminiviruses: masters at redirecting and reprogramming plant processes

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This Review describes the current knowledge of how geminiviruses interact with their plant hosts and the functional consequences of these interactions.
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The family Geminiviridae is one of the largest and most important families of plant viruses. The small, single-stranded DNA genomes of geminiviruses encode 5-7 proteins that redirect host machineries and processes to establish a productive infection. These interactions reprogramme plant cell cycle and transcriptional controls, inhibit cell death pathways, interfere with cell signalling and protein turnover, and suppress defence pathways. This Review describes our current knowledge of how geminiviruses interact with their plant hosts and the functional consequences of these interactions.

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Top 10 plant viruses in molecular plant pathology

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Geminiviruses: Models for Plant DNA Replication, Transcription, and Cell Cycle Regulation

TL;DR: The goal of this review is to summarize recent research addressing geminivirus DNA replication and its integration with transcriptional and cell cycle regulatory processes.
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