Under normal circumstances, plant viruses cause only a loss of crop yield.
Modern, intensive agriculture provides a rich environment for many plant viruses.
It is one of the few plant viruses in the Reoviridae family.
These plant viruses cause diseases in their host plants.
Control measures for all plant viruses include prevention and eradication.
However, there are many cases, where mycoviruses grouped together with plant viruses.
Some plant viruses express more than one movement protein.
In 1939 Holmes published a classification list of 129 plant viruses.
The transmission of plant viruses has been studied using grafting.
The early journal was particularly known for publishing research into plant viruses.