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Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) is a plant pathogenic virus that occurs worldwide on species of field grown bell, hot and ornamental pepper species. It is caused by members of the plant virus genus Tobamovirus —otherwise known as the tobacco mosaic virus family.
Peanut mottle virus (PeMoV) is a pathogenic plant virus of the family Potyviridae.As with other members of this virus family, PeMoV is a flexuous filamentous virus with particles 740–750 nm long.
Hypersensitive response (HR) is a mechanism used by plants to prevent the spread of infection by microbial pathogens.HR is characterized by the rapid death of cells in the local region surrounding an infection and it serves to restrict the growth and spread of pathogens to other parts of the plant.
Tobamovirus is a genus of positive-strand RNA viruses [2] in the family Virgaviridae. [3] Many plants, [2] including tobacco, potato, tomato, and squash, serve as natural hosts.
There is tenuous evidence that a virus common to peppers, the Pepper Mild Mottle Virus (PMMoV) may have moved on to infect humans. [9] This is a rare and unlikely event as, to enter a cell and replicate, a virus must "bind to a receptor on its surface, and a plant virus would be highly unlikely to recognize a receptor on a human cell.
Pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins are proteins produced in plants in the event of a pathogen attack. [1] They are induced as part of systemic acquired resistance.Infections activate genes that produce PR proteins.