As intracellular parasites, viruses co-opt the molecular machinery of the cells they infect in order to multiply and spread, and the extensiveness and effectiveness of this manipulation ultimately determine the outcome of the interaction between virus and host. Members of the Geminiviridae family, causal agents of devastating diseases in crops, encode only a handful of multifunctional, fast-evolving proteins, which efficiently target host proteins to re-wire plant development and physiology and enable replication and spread of the viral genome. In this review, we offer an overview of the different steps in the geminiviral invasion of the host plant, and explore the knowns and unknowns in geminivirus biology.

作为细胞内的寄生虫，病毒共同选择了它们感染的细胞的分子机制以繁殖和扩散，这种操作的广泛性和有效性最终决定了病毒与宿主之间相互作用的结果。该成员联体病毒科家族，在作物破坏性疾病的致病因子，编码只有多功能，快速发展的蛋白，它能有效针对宿主蛋白重新线材厂发育和生理，使病毒基因组的复制和传播了一把。在这篇综述中，我们概述了双生病毒侵染宿主植物的不同步骤，并探讨了双生病毒生物学中的已知与未知。