Veinte años de investigación con Geminivirus en vegetales en Guanajuato

Abstract

Virology is an important science because viral diseases affect direct or indirectly to human kind. There are several families of plant viruses infecting important crops. Among those, the family Geminiviridae has become an important problem since cause serious damages around the world. In Mexico, the presence of geminiviruses was reported in the late 70’s. Because their importance, the members of the Plant Virology Laboratory at Cinvestav Irapuato have been interested in generating useful information to propose strategies for geminivirus control. Here, we summarized 20 years of research in geminivirology in our laboratory. Another intention was to show how the advances in other research areas such as microbiology, physics, biochemistry, molecular biology and more recently bioinformatics could contribute to our knowledge and understanding of geminivirus.