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Host-dependent recombination of a Tomato bushy stunt virus coat protein mutant yields truncated capsid subunits that form virus-like complexes which benefit systemic spread.
Virology - 20 Dec 2002
Desvoyes Bénédicte, Scholthof Herman B
Abstract excerpt
This study examined the contribution of the Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) coat protein (CP) and its corresponding RNA to systemic infection of plants. Compared to results obtained with a mutant lacking the 5'-half of the CP gene, the presence of those CP-RNA sequences in another mutant benefited TBSV infection on Nicotiana benthamiana even though wild-type CP expression was eliminated by introduction of a small...
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