Academic Research

Professor Fuh-Jyh Jan and his team conducted inoculation experiments on begomoviruses and found that virus–virus interactions during coinfection can complement the mechanical transmissibility of begomoviruses that are originally non-mechanically transmissible under either mixed or sequential inoculation conditions, and can also alter their host range, including transmission to nonhost plants. These findings provide new insight into the complex interactions between viruses and improve our understanding of begomovirus distribution and disease management in the field. The study was published in Frontiers in Plant Science (Chang et al., 2023).

Article source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1092998/full