Publications by authors named "Qinhai Liu"
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- Autophagy is an important process in plants that helps defend against viruses like the Tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (TSWV), which threatens many crops worldwide.
- The study shows that while autophagy is activated in response to TSWV infection, the viral protein NSs counteracts this defense mechanism, allowing the virus to thrive.
- The research highlights the dynamic interplay between plant immune responses and viral countermeasures, revealing how TSWV's proteins manipulate autophagy to enhance its survival.
Orthotospoviruses, the plant-infecting bunyaviruses, cause serious diseases in agronomic crops and pose major threats to global food security. The family of contains more than 30 members that are classified into two geographic groups, American-type and Euro/Asian-type orthotospovirus. However, the genetic interaction between different species and the possibility, during mixed infections, for transcomplementation of gene functions by orthotospoviruses from different geographic groups remains underexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPea (Pisum sativum L.) is an economically important legume crop that is commonly used as dry beans, fresh peas, pods and shoots (Guo et al. 2009).
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