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Plant health is an increasingly important issue as sufficient food security is endangered by the global climate change and growing population of the world. The research in the group focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying Potato virus A (PVA) infection. PVA is a member of genus Potyvirus, which is economically the most devastating group of plant RNA viruses. Understanding the different stages of virus infection is a prerequisite for being able to prevent infections. The research in the group is carried out with the advanced techniques of biochemistry, and molecular and cell biology. The aims of  our research are:

 1) to produce novel information of the various stages of the virus multiplication cycle (protein synthesis, RNA replication, virus movement, encapsidation), and how these functions are localized and coordinated within the infected cells.