text: The intracellular life of plant viruses in hosts is still understudied especially the earliest stages of infection. Many membranous structures which viruses induce plant cells to produce are motile, often being used to traffic new virions within the producing cell and into their neighbors. Viruses also induce various changes to plants own intracellular membranes. The work of Perera et al. 2012 in mosquito virus infection and various others studying yeast models of plant viruses find this to be due to changes in homeostasis of the lipids that compose their' intracellular membranes, including increasing synthesis. These comparable lipid alterations inform our expectations and research directions for the lesser understood area of plant viruses.