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Viruses are very small pathogenic particles made up of nucleoprotein (nucleic acid and protein). The study of plant viruses is so important because they cause diseases to the economically important crops. They cause a great loss to the quality and quantity of the crops. Plant viruses show various types of symptoms such as colour breaking, chlorosis, mottling, vein clearing, vein bending, leaf curl, decrease in size, distorted growth, etc. The plant viruses are very simple and are very host specific.
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Awasthi, S., Chauhan, R., Narayan, R.P. (2016). Plant Viruses: History and Taxonomy. In: Gaur, R., Petrov, N., Patil, B., Stoyanova, M. (eds) Plant Viruses: Evolution and Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1406-2_1
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