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Symptomatology and movement of a cucumber necrosis virus mutant lacking the coat protein protruding domain.
Virology - 1 Apr 1993
McLean M A, Hamilton R I, Rochon D M
Abstract excerpt
A cucumber necrosis virus (CNV) mutant which lacks the coding sequence for the coat protein protruding domain, PD(-), was constructed by site-directed mutagenesis of an infectious CNV cDNA clone, pK2/M5 (wild-type, 4701 nt). Transcripts of PD(-) were infectious on Nicotiana clevelandii; however, local lesions produced were significantly smaller than those on the corresponding leaves of plants inoculated with...
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