Nicole Steinmetz engineers plant virus nanoparticles into versatile drug-delivery platforms. This work expanded into cancer ...

There’s more than just pollen riding on a springtime breeze. Just as some human viruses spread when humans reproduce, plant viruses can use pollen to hitch a ride from flower to flower. A study in ...

Plant viruses pose significant challenges to agricultural productivity and ecosystem stability worldwide. These infectious agents exhibit a diverse array of genomic organisations and infection ...

A virus that infects black-eyed pea plants has shown "widespread effectiveness" in helping thwart an array of metastatic cancers in mice, researchers report in a new study, offering hope the virus ...

What steps can researchers take to combat crop viruses? This is what a recent study published in Nucleic Acids Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany investigated a novel ...

Plant viruses are of great variety and harm. Virus disease pandemics and epidemics were estimated to have a global economic impact in the tens of billions of dollars. At present, there are not many ...

Viruses spread from honey bees to wild bees through shared flowers, threatening pollination and plant communities.

Scientists have learned how plants keep viruses from being passed to their offspring, a finding that could ensure healthier crops. The discovery could also help reduce the transmission of diseases ...

Rapid development of next generation sequencing technologies have greatly increased the amount of available sequence data, and provided novel opportunities for investigations of the molecular ...

BRAUNSCHWEIG, GERMANY, February 7, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A research team led by plant virus expert Dr. Björn Krenz from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German ...

Biologists found hundreds of virus species traveling on pollen grains. The results carry lessons for agriculture and even backyard beekeepers. We rely on pollinators like honeybees for all sorts of ...

Most gardeners are aware of plant diseases that can wreak havoc in their gardens. If you grow fruit trees, you may be confronted with curled, reddened peach leaves (peach leaf curl fungus). If you ...