Overview of potyviruses and taxonomy.- The general properties of potyviruses.- Application of genome sequence information in potyvirus taxonomy:an overview.- Inclusion bodies.- Potyviruses, chaos or order?.- What is a virus?.- Serology and antigenic relationships.- Serology of potyviruses: current problems and some solutions.- Polyclonal reference antisera may be useful for the differentiation of potyvirus species.- Proteolytic cleavage of the N-terminal region of potyvirus coat protein and its relation to host recovery and vector transmission.- Some unusual serological reactions among potyviruses.- Potyviruses, monoclonal antibodies, and antigenic sites.- Serological relationships involving poty viral non-structural proteins.- Potyvirus serology, sequences and biology.- Coat protein phylogeny and systematics of potyviruses.- Virus biology and variation.- Importance of host ranges and other biological properties for the taxonomy of plant viruses.- Clustering Potyviridae species on the basis of four major traits.- Specific infectivity and host resistance have predicated poty viral and pathotype nomenclature but relate less to taxonomy.- Sources of resistance to viruses in the Potyviridae.- Potential for using transgenic plants as a tool for virus taxonomy.- A potyvirus in nature: indistinct populations.- Potyvirus taxonomy: potyviruses that affect solanaceous crops.- Biological variants of tobacco etch virus that induce morphologically distinct nuclear inclusions.- Biological variability of potyviruses, an example: zucchini yellow mosaic virus.- Designation of potyvirus genera: a question of perspective and timing.- Fungal transmission of a potyvirus: uredospores of Puccinia sorghi transmit maize dwarf mosaic virus.- The usefulness of aphid transmission as a taxonomie criterion for potyviruses.- Genome and sequence relationships.- Viruses of the Potyviridae with non-aphid vectors.- Potyviridae: genus Rymovirus.- How important is genome division as a taxonomie criterion in plant virus classification?.- Sequence data as the major criterion for potyvirus classification.- The recombinative nature of potyviruses: implications for setting up true phylogenetic taxonomy.- Virus relationships.- Nomenclature and relationships of some Brazilian leguminous potyviruses related to bean common mosaic and/or passionfruit woodiness viruses.- Ecology and taxonomy of some European potyviruses.- Relationships among iris severe mosaic virus (ISMV) isolates.- Virus relationships — PVY subgroup.- A comparison of pepper mottle virus with potato virus Y and evidence for their distinction.- Is pepper mottle virus a strain of potato virus Y?.- Evidence that pepper mottle virus and potato virus Y are distinct viruses: analyses of the coat protein and 3? untranslated sequence of a California isolate of pepper mottle virus.- Virus relationships — SCMV subgroup.- A viewpoint on the taxonomy of potyviruses infecting sugarcane, maize, and sorghum.- Differentiation of the four viruses of the sugarcane mosaic virus subgroup based on cytopathology.- Present status of the sugarcane mosaic subgroup of potyviruses.- Virus relationships — BYMV subgroup.- Bean yellow mosaic virus subgroup; search for the group specific sequences in the 3? terminal region of the genome.- Virus relationships — BCMV subgroup.- A proposal for a bean common mosaic subgroup of.- Serological and biological relationships among viruses in the bean common mosaic virus subgroup.- Strains of bean common mosaic virus consist of at least two distinct potyviruses.- Serotype A and B strains of bean common mosaic virus are two distinct potyviruses.- Summary.- A summary of potyvirus taxonomy and definitions.