Resistance to Citrus psorosis virus in transgenic sweet orange plants is triggered by coat protein-RNA silencing

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 151-158

  Reyes, Carina Andrea ^a   De Francesco, Agustina ^a   Peña, Eduardo José ^a,d   Costa, Norma ^b   Plata, María Inés ^b   Sendin, Lorena ^c   Castagnaro, Atilio Pedro ^c   García, María Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^c Estación Experimental Agroindustrial Agropecuaria Obispo Colombres   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Citrus psorosis virus; Hairpin RNA; Ophiovirus; Post transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS); Transgenic sweet orange; Viral resistance

Indexed keywords

CITRUS PSOROSIS VIRUS; HAIRPIN-RNA; OPHIOVIRUS; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; TRANSGENICS; VIRAL RESISTANCE;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MACHINERY; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

VIRUSES;

COAT PROTEIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CITRUS PSOROSIS VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA VIRUS; SWEET ORANGE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CAPSID PROTEINS; CITRUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT VIRUSES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

CITRUS; CITRUS PSOROSIS VIRUS; CITRUS SINENSIS; OPHIOVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 78650679212     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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