Member viruses infect plants and are transmitted by whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci).

Member viruses have linear, single stranded RNA genome of positive polarity about 10-11 kilobases in length.

[1] Member viruses encode a single polypeptide with a predicted molecular weight of 390 kilodaltons (kDa) which is cleaved into ~10 proteins.

Inosine triphosphate pyrophosphatase (known as ITPase or HAM1) is an atypical protein domain identified in some ipomoviruses.

[1] The genus contains the following species:[2] Ugandan cassava brown streak virus was the first ipomovirus to be cloned and rescued using a plasmid cDNA vector system.