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Plum pox potyvirus resistance associated to transgene silencing that can be stabilized after different number of plant generations.
Gene - 12 Jan 1998
Guo H S, Cervera M T, García J A
Abstract excerpt
Nicotiana benthamiana plants were transformed with a fragment of the plum pox potyvirus (PPV) genome that encodes the nuclear inclusion a (NIa) and b (NIb) proteins and the N-terminus of the capsid protein (NIa-NIb-CP). Lines transformed with this PPV genomic fragment harboring mutations in the GDD replicase-motif were also obtained. Plants of NIaDeltaV lines that carry a GDD to VDD mutation in the PPV transgene,...
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