Tomato yellow leaf curl Sardinia virus rep-derived resistance to homologous and heterologous geminiviruses occurs by different mechanisms and is overcome if virus-mediated transgene silencing is activated

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 6785-6798

  Lucioli, Alessandra ^a   Noris, Emanuela ^b   Brunetti, Angela ^a   Tavazza, Raffaela ^a   Ruzza, Valentino ^a   Castillo, Araceli G ^c   Bejarano, Eduardo R ^c   Accotto, Gian Paolo ^b   Tavazza, Mario ^a  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE PLANT PROTECTION   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; REPLICATION ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; REPLICATION ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 210; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; C1 GENE; GEMINIVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOMATO YELLOW LEAF CURL SARDINIA VIRUS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS RESISTANCE; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; GEMINIVIRIDAE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOBACCO; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0037942759     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.12.6785-6798.2003     Document Type: Article

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