Damages caused by viruses have a major economic and agronomic impact in agriculture. To counter these attacks, plants have developed efficient defence mechanisms that prevent or limit viral infection. Recently, important advances in our understanding of the molecular nature and mechanisms associated with recessive or dominant natural virus resistance genes have been made, as well as concerning the general antiviral defence system based on ribonucleic acid (RNA) silencing.
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