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A high level of transgenic viral small RNA is associated with broad potyvirus resistance in cucurbits.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Oct 2011
Leibman Diana, Wolf Dalia, Saharan Vinod, Zelcer Aaron, Arazi Tzahi, Yoel Shiboleth, Gaba Victor, Gal-On Amit
Abstract excerpt
Gene-silencing has been used to develop resistance against many plant viruses but little is known about the transgenic small-interfering RNA (t-siRNA) that confers this resistance. Transgenic cucumber and melon lines harboring a hairpin construct of the Zucchini yellow mosaic potyvirus (ZYMV) HC-Pro gene accumulated different levels of t-siRNA (6 to 44% of total siRNA) and exhibited resistance to systemic ZYMV...
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