Welcome to the site for Plant Virologists everywhere!
This site provides a central source of information about viruses, viroids and satellites of plants, fungi and protozoa, with some additional data on animal viruses and phages with RNA or ssDNA genomes.
You will find here:
Introduction to Plant Viruses
An introductory overview of plant viruses, their importance, transmission and classification.
Updated Submission Instructions: January 2023.
We are accepting new ‘Descriptions of Plant Viruses’ from members of the community. We are actively recruiting new Descriptions and have simplified submission using an automated form. We invite anyone to submit a new Description of any new viruses on which you are working. The automated submission form will generate a PDF that will be circulated to the AAB Virology group for review. They will return to you with any questions to be answered before the DPV is published on the DPV website.
All newly accepted submissions will be provided with a permanent URL that can be quoted in relevant CVs. If you have any questions about this process please contact AAB Executive Officer Dr Geraint Parry (geraint@aab.org.uk)
Submit new DPV here: https://www.aab.org.uk/dpv-submission-form/
** PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SITE WILL NOT BE UPDATED WITH SEQUENCE AND TAXONOMIC INFORMATION AFTER AUGUST 2013 **
Descriptions of Plant Viruses (DPV)
Over 400 individual descriptions of plant viruses or virus groups. Nos 1-354 were originally published in paper form by the Association of Applied Biologists (AAB) between 1970 and 1989, while additional descriptions have been added to a CD-ROM (also published by the AAB) since 1998. These can now be accessed from the indexes in the DPV menu or from the Taxonomy pages. New descriptions are being commissioned and will be added as they become available.
Sequences
We provide the accession numbers used by EMBL and Genbank databases for all the sequences of viruses, satellites and viroids infecting plants, fungi and protozoa. These have been checked to ensure that, as far as possible, they are allocated here to their correct name and the list is updated at least once every two months.
Sequence analysis
We have constructed a sequence feature database (DPVweb) that contains all sequences of viruses, viroids and satellites of plants, fungi and protozoa, that are complete or which encode one or more gene. The database also includes verified annotations for the open reading frames and other major features. To assist comparisons with related viruses, there are also representative sequences for every completely sequenced animal virus with an RNA or ssDNA genome. Sequence features (genes etc.) can be selected and downloaded in FASTA format (nucleotide sequence and, where appropriate, the amino acid sequence) by following the links to Curated Sequences from the Notes pages.We developed some standalone (PC) software that interacted with this database but this no longer works following updates to the server software.
Publications describing this Web Site
Adams, M.J. & Antoniw, J.F. (2005). DPVweb: An open access internet resource on plant viruses and virus diseases. Outlooks on Pest Management 16, 268-270.
Adams, M.J. & Antoniw, J.F. (2006). DPVweb: a comprehensive database of plant and fungal virus genes and genomes. Nucleic Acids Research 34, Database issue, D382-D385.
Copyright information
All information and illustrations on this internet site are copyright. If you wish to use any of the text or illustrations, please contact:
For the numbered DPV virus descriptions:
the named author(s) for each description AND the Association of Applied Biologists.
For all other parts of the site: the Rothamsted Research authors Mike Adams