Biofertilizers & Plant Vectors

Applications of plant vectors

Applications of virus-based vectors include specific studies of plant biochemical processes, including production of human/animal therapeutic proteins in plant cells and conferring resistance to pathogens. Insect vectors play an important role in determining the plant host range of viruses. Viral transmission capacity is determined by genetic components and specific molecular interactions of viruses and vectors, potentially with host plant components absorbed during feeding. A vector is a DNA molecule (often a plasmid or virus) that is used as a means of transporting a specific DNA segment into a host cell as part of a cloning or recombinant DNA technique in the context of molecular biology