Definitions for "Geminivirus"
One of the two groups of DNA viruses that infect plants, the members of which have potential as cloning vectors for some species of higher plants.
(From Latin gemini, "twins", for the typical double particles). Member of the only group of plant viruses with double particles, each particle containing circular or linear single-stranded DNA; this group is divided into two subgroups I and II (transmitted in a circulative manner by leafhoppers) and subgroup III (transmitted in a circulative manner by whiteflies or, in the case of some viruses in this group, mechanically transmitted). ()