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A single complementary-sense transcript of a geminiviral DNA beta satellite is determinant of pathogenicity.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jan 2005
Saeed Muhammad, Behjatnia S A Akbar, Mansoor Shahid, Zafar Yusuf, Hasnain Shahida, Rezaian M Ali
Abstract excerpt
Small circular single-stranded DNA satellites, termed DNAbeta, have recently been found associated with some geminivirus infections. The DNA beta associated with Cotton leaf curl virus is responsible for symptom expression of a devastating disease in Pakistan. Mutagenesis of DNA beta revealed that the complementary-sense open reading frame (ORF) betaC1 is required for inducing disease symptoms in Nicotiana...
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