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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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Suppressors of RNA silencing encoded by the components of the cotton leaf curl begomovirus-betasatellite complex.

TL;DR: This is the first time all proteins encoded by a geminiviruses (or begomovirus-betasatellite complex) have been examined and also the first for which four separate suppressors have been identified.
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Maize streak virus: an old and complex 'emerging' pathogen.

TL;DR: Maize streak virus occurs throughout Africa, where it causes what is probably the most serious viral crop disease on the continent, and natural resistance to MSV in maize, and/or maize infections caused by non-maize-adapted MSV strains, can result in narrow, interrupted streaks and no obvious yield losses.
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Proliferating cell nuclear antigen transcription is repressed through an E2F consensus element and activated by geminivirus infection in mature leaves

TL;DR: Results demonstrate that geminivirus infection induces the accumulation of a host replication factor by activating transcription of its gene in mature tissues, most likely by overcoming E2F-mediated repression.
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Interaction between a geminivirus replication protein and the plant sumoylation system

TL;DR: Effects on geminivirus replication were observed in transgenic plants with altered levels of SUMO, the substrate for UBC9, and the host cell sumoylation enzyme, NbSCE1 (N. benthamiana SUMO-conjugating enzyme, homolog to Saccharomyces cerevisiae U BC9), was found to interact specifically with RepAC1.
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SUMO, a heavyweight player in plant abiotic stress responses

TL;DR: This review focuses on the emerging importance ofsumoylation in the abiotic stress response, summarizing the molecular implications of sumoylation and emphasizing how high-throughput approaches aimed at identifying the full set of SUMO targets will greatly enhance the understanding of the SUMO–abiotic stress association.
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