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Plant viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that infect vascular plants, hijacking host cellular machinery to replicate and spread. Understanding plant viruses is critical for agriculture and ecology, as viral infections can devastate crops, reduce yields, and alter plant physiology in ways that ripple through ecosystems. Research into plant-virus interactions also reveals fundamental mechanisms of plant immunity and has led to biotechnological tools for studying gene function.

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