Plant viruses don’t just infect — they reprogram.
TYLCV infection shifts sugars & amino acids from shoots to roots, tweaking host metabolism to its own advantage.
Viral engineering at its finest.
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Spread exclusively by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci — infected whiteflies carry TYLCV for life: Cohen S. & Nitzany F.E. (1966). Transmission and host range of the tomato yellow leaf curl virus. Phytopathology, 56:1127–1131.
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🔬 Historical milestone in #PlantVirology!
In 1991, Navot et al. cloned & sequenced the complete genome of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) 👉 revealing it as the first known whitefly-transmitted monopartite geminivirus!
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Early history: TYLCD was initially recognized in the Jordan Valley, Israel, in the 1930s, but it was not until the early 1960s that #TYLCV was identified (Cohen and Nitzany, 1960, 1966). Found in: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Apparently, #begomoviruses, like #TYLCV, can replicate in one nucleus...that might have some implications. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The study by Wege et al. (2024) shows #TYLCV and Tomato yellow leaf curl Sardinia virus (TYLCSV) can co-infect the same nucleus in a host cell — an unusual tête-à-tête with implications for recombination!
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#VirusoftheMonth – June 2025: Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV)
After PSSaV in May, we now turn to one of the most destructive viruses affecting tomato crops globally: TYLCV.
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