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A single nucleotide substitution converts potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) from a noninfectious to an infectious RNA for nicotiana tabacum.
Virology - 15 Dec 1996
Wassenegger M, Spieker R L, Thalmeir S, Gast F U, Riedel L, Sänger H L
Abstract excerpt
Mechanical inoculation of Nicotiana tabacum with the PSTVd isolate KF 440-2 from the host plant tomato resulted in the de novo emergence, replication, and accumulation of a new "tobacco variant," designated PSTVd NT. It produces no symptoms in tobacco but, like PSTV KF 440-2, severe ones in tomat...
Topics
- Base Composition
- Cytidine
- Genetic Variation
- Solanum lycopersicum
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Plant Viruses
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Plants, Toxic
- RNA Viruses
- RNA, Viral
- Nicotiana
- Uridine
