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Random Plant Viral Variants Attain Temporal Advantages During Systemic Infections and in Turn Resist other Variants of the Same Virus.
Scientific reports - 20 Oct 2015
Zhang Xiao-Feng, Guo Jiangbo, Zhang Xiuchun, Meulia Tea, Paul Pierce, Madden Laurence V, Li Dawei, Qu Feng
Abstract excerpt
Infection of plants with viruses containing multiple variants frequently leads to dominance by a few random variants in the systemically infected leaves (SLs), for which a plausible explanation is lacking. We show here that SL dominance by a given viral variant is adequately explained by its fortuitous lead in systemic spread, coupled with its resistance to superinfection by other variants. We analyzed the fate...
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