Article
Amino acids in the capsid protein of tomato yellow leaf curl virus that are crucial for systemic infection, particle formation, and insect transmission.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 1998
Noris E, Vaira A M, Caciagli P, Masenga V, Gronenborn B, Accotto G P
Abstract excerpt
A functional capsid protein (CP) is essential for host plant infection and insect transmission in monopartite geminiviruses. We studied two defective genomic DNAs of tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), Sic and SicRcv. Sic, cloned from a field-infected tomato, was not infectious, whereas SicRcv...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Capsid
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Viral
- Defective Viruses
- Diptera
- Geminiviridae
- Genetic Engineering
- Solanum lycopersicum
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Plant Diseases