Article
Spontaneous change of a benign satellite RNA of cucumber mosaic virus to a pathogenic variant.
Nature biotechnology - 1 Oct 1996
Palukaitis P, Roossinck M J
Abstract excerpt
Plant satellite RNAs generally reduce the level of helper virus accumulation and attenuate the disease symptoms induced by the helper virus that they depend upon for replication and packaging. As such, satellite RNAs could be used as biocontrol agents to reduce the level of disease in field crops...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Cucumovirus
- Genetic Variation
- Helper Viruses
- Plant Diseases
- Plants, Toxic
- RNA, Satellite
- Nicotiana
- Virulence
- Virus Replication
