Narayan Rishi Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Virology
Professor, Amity Institute of Virology & Immunology
Prof. Narayan Rishi, Advisor, Amity Institute of Virology and Immunology, Amity University. He is one of the senior most Plant Virologists in the country. He has immensely contributed to the cause of virology albeit research, teaching and promoting this subject. Prof. Rishi served CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar for 28 years on various positions. He developed there a strong school of Plant Virology and established a state of art laboratory
Short Communication Open Access
Author(s): Aruna Jangid, Narayan Rishi and Vanita Chandel
Genus Begomovirus of Geminiviridae family has widest host range in plants. It can be monopartite or bipartite. These are further grouped into old world (monopartite/bipartite) and new world (bipartite) based on their genome. In the defence and counter defence strategies of plants and viruses, the latter evolved some proteins which can suppress the RNA silencing and these viral proteins are known as RSS (RNA silencing suppressors). Number of viral proteins are identified as RSS. Mucuna pruriens commonly known as velvet bean or magic bean also owing to its medicinal properties due to which its widely used in medicines for curing diseases like Parkinson’s disease, bite of snake and in case of liver dysfunction. Velvet bean severe mosaic virus (VbSMV) infecting Mucuna pruriens has bee... view moreĀ»