Anne Simon joins the TWiV team to talk about plant viruses, including plum pox virus that devastates nut and stone fruit trees, and a geminivirus protein that regulates viral DNA synthesis.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Anne Simon
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Links for this episode
- Support Viruses Gordon Conference
- Potyvirus (ViralZone) 42:34
- Plum pox (Wikipedia) 11:29, 42:10
- History, biology, management of plum pox (Mich St Ext) 13:22
- Papaya ring spot virus (Bus Man) 26:37
- Geminivirus (ViralZone) 48:03
- Geminivirus rep impairs PCNA SUMOylation (J Virol) 45:11, 52:38
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- Letters read on TWiV 512 3:34, 1:18:01
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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