Opium poppy mosaic virus (OPMV) is a single-stranded plus-sense RNA virus that does not encode a capsid protein and requires a helper virus. Ilyas et al. (e02109-20) found that OPMV generates two similarly sized subgenomic RNAs (sgRNAs), one of which is synthesized by the replicase and is the template for translation of viral movement proteins. The other is generated by an exoribonuclease-resistant sequence, a mechanism that normally produces small, noncoding sgRNAs. However, this sgRNA codes for a 30-kDa protein with a functional role in OPMV accumulation. The authors also determined that OPMV uses a Barley yellow dwarf virus-like translation element (BTE) as one of its 3′ cap-independent translation enhancers. While BTEs were thought to have little in common beyond a 17-nucleotide conserved sequence, analysis of the 14 known BTE structures showed that BTEs contain additional, strongly conserved sequences and structural features that include residues known to interact with translation initiation factor eIF4G.