TY - BOOK ID - 14220982 TI - Plant Viral Vectors AU - Palmer, Kenneth. AU - Gleba, Yuri. PY - 2014 SN - 3642408281 364240829X PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Molecular virology. KW - Plant immunology. KW - Plant viruses. KW - Virus diseases of plants. KW - Plant virus diseases KW - Plants KW - Phytopathogenic viruses KW - Plant virology KW - Immunology, Plant KW - Viruses KW - Virus diseases KW - Molecular aspects KW - Medicine. KW - Vaccines. KW - Virology. KW - Biomedicine. KW - Vaccine. KW - Microbiology KW - Biologicals KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Plant diseases KW - Plant viruses KW - Phytopathogenic microorganisms KW - Virus diseases of plants KW - Immunology KW - Molecular microbiology KW - Virology KW - Disease and pest resistance KW - Medical virology. KW - Medical microbiology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14220982 AB - In this volume, the authors provide an excellent overview of how far the plant viral vector field has come. This discipline is no longer exclusively the domain of academics − there is a small, but growing number of small biotechnology companies that exploit plant viruses as a platform for commercial innovation in crop improvement, industrial product manufacturing, and human and veterinary health care.  The authors, who work in the plant viral “vectorology” field, have Bill Dawson to thank in some way for their scientific pedigree, and they are honored that he contributed the opening chapter of this volume with the history of plant virus vector development: “A vector is not a virus; it is a device designed to perform a specific function.” Other contributors have provided fascinating reviews of how plant viral vectors have been adapted to serve specific functions, from plant gene function discovery to nanotechnology, providing infinitely scalable manufacturing systems valuable for human therapeutics. . ER -