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Adaptation of tobacco etch potyvirus to a susceptible ecotype of Arabidopsis thaliana capacitates it for systemic infection of resistant ecotypes.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 27 Jun 2010
Lalić Jasna, Agudelo-Romero Patricia, Carrasco Purificación, Elena Santiago F
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Viral pathogens continue to emerge among humans, domesticated animals and cultivated crops. The existence of genetic variance for resistance in the host population is crucial to the spread of an emerging virus. Models predict that rapid spread decreases with the frequency and diversity of resistance alleles in the host population. However, empirical tests of this hypothesis are scarce. Arabiodpsis...
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