TY - BOOK ID - 134172853 TI - The Application of Viruses to Biotechnology AU - Varanda, Carla AU - Materatski, Patrick PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Technology: general issues KW - Bacteriophage KW - Salmonella KW - biocontrol KW - comparative genomics KW - phage diversity KW - grapevine KW - apple latent spherical virus vector KW - virus-induced flowering KW - reduced generation time KW - breeding of grapevine KW - virus elimination KW - Newcastle disease virus KW - reverse genetics KW - vaccines KW - infectious diseases KW - cancer KW - porcine epidemic diarrhea virus KW - VLP KW - chemokines KW - pig KW - vaccine KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - COVID-19 KW - phages KW - CRISPR KW - viruses KW - prevention KW - diagnosis KW - treatment KW - adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector KW - jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) KW - LTR KW - enhancer KW - transduction KW - viral vaccines KW - cancers KW - COVID-19 vaccines KW - self-replicating RNA vectors KW - DNA-based vaccines KW - RNA-based vaccines KW - plant virus KW - viroid KW - viral vector KW - virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) KW - CRISPR/Cas9 KW - genome editing KW - carotenoid biosynthesis KW - circular RNA KW - infectious bursal disease virus KW - immunization KW - recombinant Lactococcus lactis KW - variant strain KW - baculovirus KW - insect cells KW - bacmid KW - Tn7 KW - genome stability KW - protein expression KW - chikungunya virus KW - VLPs KW - bioreactor KW - CRISPR/Cas systems KW - viral vectors KW - gene editing KW - plant genome engineering KW - viral resistance KW - adeno-associated virus KW - AAV KW - cancer gene therapy KW - prophage KW - hydrothermal vent KW - Hypnocyclicus thermotrophus KW - lytic cassette KW - Escherichia coli KW - heterologous expression KW - codon optimization KW - codon harmonization KW - expression vectors KW - aspect ratio KW - VNPs KW - TMV KW - PVX KW - CPMV KW - geminivirus KW - theranostics KW - CRISPR-cas9 KW - clodronate KW - macrophage KW - gene therapy KW - gene expression KW - nanotechnology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134172853 AB - Viruses are microscopic agents that exist worldwide and are present in humans, animals, plants, and other living organisms in which they can cause devastating diseases. However, the advances of biotechnology and next-generation sequencing technologies have accelerated novel virus discovery, identification, sequencing, and manipulation, showing that they present unique characteristics that place them as valuable tools for a wide variety of biotechnological applications. Many applications of viruses have been used for agricultural purposes, namely concerning plant breeding and plant protection. Nevertheless, it is interesting to mention that plants have also many advantages to be used in vaccine production, such as the low cost and low risks they entail, showing once more the versatility of the use of viruses in biotechnology. Although it will obviously never be ignored that viruses are responsible for devastating diseases, it is clear that the more they are studied, the more possibilities they offer to us. They are now on the front line of the most revolutionizing techniques in several fields, providing advances that would not be possible without their existence. In this book there are presented studies that demonstrate the work developed using viruses in biotechnology. These studies were brought by experts that focus on the development and applications of many viruses in several fields, such as agriculture, the pharmaceutical industry, and medicine. ER -