Plant viruses

Cowpea mosaic virus molecule (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Thomas Splettstoesser
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Plant viruses
are subcellular particles which consist of proteins and either RNA or DNA. They invade cells and use the metabolism of their host cells to multiply. They cause important diseases of cultivated plants.

For more details see the respective page in Wikipedia.

Families of plant viruses:

• Alphaflexiviridae
• Betaflexiviridae
• Bromoviridae
• Bunyaviridae
• Caulimoviridae
• Closteroviridae
• Geminiviridae
• Luteoviridae
• Nanoviridae

• Ophioviridae
• Potyviridae
• Reoviridae
• Rhabdoviridae
• Secoviridae
• Tombusviridae
• Tymoviridae
• unassigned viruses
• Virgaviridae