Advanced Plant Virology

The plant virus genome: genome organization, architecture (gene classes and their functions) and expression. Molecular basis for vector transmission, movement in plant, symptom development and gene for gene relationships. Variability in viruses and relationship to disease epidemiology. Emphasis will be on conceptual aspects of plant virology, molecular and cellular plant virology, and virus interactions with their plant hosts and insect vectors, as well as conventional and biotechnological approaches to virus disease control