To attain their objective, viruses have evolved mechanisms to hijack the normal cellular machinery and subvert it to their own ends, often with catastrophic consequences for the host.
Viruses are both curious and fascinating entities.
Viruses of animals and plants share many common features and properties, so our research has broad reaching implications. Plant viruses also have unique features, some of the more interesting of which are the genes and gene products required for virus movement between cells in an infected plant.