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Effects of the cucumber mosaic virus 2a protein on aphid-plant interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Molecular plant pathology - 1 Sept 2020
Rhee Sun-Ju, Watt Lewis G, Bravo Ana Cazar, Murphy Alex M, Carr John P
Abstract excerpt
The cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) 2a RNA-dependent RNA polymerase protein has an additional function in Arabidopsis thaliana, which is to stimulate feeding deterrence (antixenosis) against aphids. Antixenosis is thought to increase the probability that aphids, after acquiring CMV particles from brief probes of an infected plant's epidermal cells, will be discouraged from settling and instead will spread inoculum to...
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