Vol. 4, Iss. 1, Pages 1-20

Plant-Virus Interactions: Disease Resistance in Focus

Waqar Islam, Madiha Zaynab, Muhammad Qasim, Zujian Wu

Abstract | Crops are threatened by plant viruses worldwide as they hack the host machinery for their reproduction. Plants have undergone continuous evolution and have equipped themselves with counter defense and tolerant strategies against viral infections. In…

Hosts and Viruses: A New Avenue

As you may have noticed, this issue of the journal has a new name. Starting from the first issue of 2017, Hosts and Viruses is the revised name of the British Journal of Virology. The journal was initiated in 2013 and started publishing in 2014 with six issues…

Infectious Bursal Disease Virus-Induced Chicken Innate Immune Genes Expression

Gabriela Mansano do Nascimento, Helena Lage Ferreira, Clarice Weis Arns

Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) belongs to the genus Avibirnavirus, a dsRNA virus that causes an acute, highly contagious and immunosuppressive disease in young chickens. The first line of defence against the virus is innate immunity whose activation is…