Question

What are a few examples of plant viral diseases?

Answer 1

Plant viral diseases:

1. Viral diseases are illnesses or health conditions caused by viruses.
2. Viruses are small, simple, and highly infectious microorganisms.
3. They reproduce only within the living cells of animals, plants, and bacteria.
4. Plant viruses are viruses that affect plants.
5. Viruses that infect plants are obligate intracellular parasites, which do not possess the molecular machinery to replicate without hosts.
6. Higher plants are also susceptible to virus infection.
7. An example of a few examples of plant viral diseases are as follows:

1. Papaya leaf curl is caused by Begomovirus.
2. Tobbaco mosaic virus causes mosaic in tobbaco.
3. Yellow vein mosaic of okra.