Mutations in viral movement protein alter systemic infection and identify an intercellular barrier to entry into the phloem long-distance transport system.

Abstract excerpt

Viral systemic infection of a plant host involves two processes, cell-to-cell movement and long-distance transport. Molecular determinants associated with these two processes were probed by investigating the effects that alanine scanning mutations in the movement protein (MP) of red clover necrot...

Topics

• Biological Transport
• Microscopy, Electron
• Mosaic Viruses
• Mutation
• Plants
• Viral Proteins
• Virus Replication