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In Memoriam: The Career, Achievements, and Legacy of Milton Zaitlin. Adv Virus Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aivir.2018.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Galvez LC, Banerjee J, Pinar H, Mitra A. Engineered plant virus resistance. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 228:11-25. [PMID: 25438782 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2014] [Revised: 07/16/2014] [Accepted: 07/18/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Virus diseases are among the key limiting factors that cause significant yield loss and continuously threaten crop production. Resistant cultivars coupled with pesticide application are commonly used to circumvent these threats. One of the limitations of the reliance on resistant cultivars is the inevitable breakdown of resistance due to the multitude of variable virus populations. Similarly, chemical applications to control virus transmitting insect vectors are costly to the farmers, cause adverse health and environmental consequences, and often result in the emergence of resistant vector strains. Thus, exploiting strategies that provide durable and broad-spectrum resistance over diverse environments are of paramount importance. The development of plant gene transfer systems has allowed for the introgression of alien genes into plant genomes for novel disease control strategies, thus providing a mechanism for broadening the genetic resources available to plant breeders. Genetic engineering offers various options for introducing transgenic virus resistance into crop plants to provide a wide range of resistance to viral pathogens. This review examines the current strategies of developing virus resistant transgenic plants.
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- Leny C Galvez
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebarska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0722, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebarska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0722, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebarska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0722, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebarska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0722, USA.
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Koh KW, Lu HC, Chan MT. Virus resistance in orchids. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 228:26-38. [PMID: 25438783 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2014] [Revised: 04/07/2014] [Accepted: 04/17/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Orchid plants, Phalaenopsis and Dendrobium in particular, are commercially valuable ornamental plants sold worldwide. Unfortunately, orchid plants are highly susceptible to viral infection by Cymbidium mosaic virus (CymMV) and Odotoglossum ringspot virus (ORSV), posing a major threat and serious economic loss to the orchid industry worldwide. A major challenge is to generate an effective method to overcome plant viral infection. With the development of optimized orchid transformation biotechnological techniques and the establishment of concepts of pathogen-derived resistance (PDR), the generation of plants resistant to viral infection has been achieved. The PDR concept involves introducing genes that is(are) derived from the virus into the host plant to induce RNA- or protein-mediated resistance. We here review the fundamental mechanism of the PDR concept, and illustrate its application in protecting against viral infection of orchid plants.
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- Kah Wee Koh
- Academia Sinica Biotechnology Center in Southern Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Academia Sinica Biotechnology Center in Southern Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Academia Sinica Biotechnology Center in Southern Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan; Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Peng JC, Chen TC, Raja JAJ, Yang CF, Chien WC, Lin CH, Liu FL, Wu HW, Yeh SD. Broad-spectrum transgenic resistance against distinct tospovirus species at the genus level. PLoS One 2014; 9:e96073. [PMID: 24811071 PMCID: PMC4014477 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2013] [Accepted: 04/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Thrips-borne tospoviruses cause severe damage to crops worldwide. In this investigation, tobacco lines transgenic for individual WLm constructs containing the conserved motifs of the L RNA-encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (L) gene of Watermelon silver mottle virus (WSMoV) were generated by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. The WLm constructs included: (i) translatable WLm in a sense orientation; (ii) untranslatable WLmt with two stop codons; (iii) untranslatable WLmts with stop codons and a frame-shift; (iv) untranslatable antisense WLmA; and (v) WLmhp with an untranslatable inverted repeat of WLm containing the tospoviral S RNA 3'-terminal consensus sequence (5'-ATTGCTCT-3') and an NcoI site as a linker to generate a double-stranded hairpin transcript. A total of 46.7-70.0% transgenic tobacco lines derived from individual constructs showed resistance to the homologous WSMoV; 35.7-100% plants of these different WSMoV-resistant lines exhibited broad-spectrum resistance against four other serologically unrelated tospoviruses Tomato spotted wilt virus, Groundnut yellow spot virus, Impatiens necrotic spot virus and Groundnut chlorotic fan-spot virus. The selected transgenic tobacco lines also exhibited broad-spectrum resistance against five additional tospoviruses from WSMoV and Iris yellow spot virus clades, but not against RNA viruses from other genera. Northern analyses indicated that the broad-spectrum resistance is mediated by RNA silencing. To validate the L conserved region resistance in vegetable crops, the constructs were also used to generate transgenic tomato lines, which also showed effective resistance against WSMoV and other tospoviruses. Thus, our approach of using the conserved motifs of tospoviral L gene as a transgene generates broad-spectrum resistance against tospoviruses at the genus level.
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- Jui-Chu Peng
- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Division of Crop Environment, Tainan District Agricultural Research and Extension Station, COA, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Wufeng, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
- NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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Tan X, Zhang D, Wintgens C, Willingmann P, Adam G, Heinze C. A Comparative Testing of <i>Cucumber mosaic virus</i> (CMV)-Based Constructs to Generate Virus Resistant Plants. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.4236/ajps.2012.34055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Increased resistance to cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) in Lilium transformed with a defective CMV replicase gene. Biotechnol Lett 2011; 33:1249-55. [PMID: 21287228 DOI: 10.1007/s10529-011-0550-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2011] [Accepted: 01/18/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Lilium cv Acapulco was transformed with a defective cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) replicase gene (CMV2-GDD) construct using Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Four lines were analyzed for gene expression and resistance to CMV-O strain. Expression of the CMV2-GDD gene in the transgenic plants was confirmed by reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR). When these four lines were mechanically inoculated with CMV-O, no signal of coat protein (CP) messages using RT-PCR was detected in newly produced leaves of two transgenic lines. Dot-immunobinding assay (DIBA) of CP was performed to examine the presence of the CMV in the newly produced leaves of challenged plants. Results, similar to those obtained with RT-PCR of the CP messages, were observed in DIBA. Therefore, our results imply that the two lines show increased levels of resistance to CMV, and CMV-GDD replicase gene is an effective construct that has protection against CMV in Lilium.
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Kamo K, Jordan R, Guaragna MA, Hsu HT, Ueng P. Resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus in Gladiolus plants transformed with either a defective replicase or coat protein subgroup II gene from Cucumber mosaic virus. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2010; 29:695-704. [PMID: 20411391 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-010-0855-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2009] [Revised: 03/24/2010] [Accepted: 04/07/2010] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Transgenic Gladiolus plants that contain either Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) subgroup I coat protein, CMV subgroup II coat protein, CMV replicase, a combination of the CMV subgroups I and II coat proteins, or a combination of the CMV subgroup II coat protein and replicase genes were developed. These plants were multiplied in vitro and challenged with purified CMV isolated from Gladiolus using a hand-held gene gun. Three out of 19 independently transformed plants expressing the replicase gene under control of the duplicated CaMV 35S promoter were found to be resistant to CMV subgroup I. Three out of 21 independently transformed plants with the CMV subgroup II coat protein gene under control of the Arabidopsis UBQ3 promoter were resistant to CMV subgroup II. Eighteen independently transformed plants with either the CMV subgroup I coat protein or a combination of CMV subgroups I and II coat proteins were challenged and found to be susceptible to both CMV subgroups I or II. Virus resistant plants with the CMV replicase transgene expressed much lower RNA levels than resistant plants expressing the CMV subgroup II coat protein. This work will facilitate the evaluation of virus resistance in transgenic Gladiolus plants to yield improved floral quality and productivity.
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- Kathryn Kamo
- Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit, USDA, US National Arboretum, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA.
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García-Cano E, Navas-Castillo J, Moriones E, Fernández-Muñoz R. Resistance to Tomato chlorosis virus in wild tomato species that impair virus accumulation and disease symptom expression. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2010; 100:582-92. [PMID: 20465414 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-100-6-0582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) (genus Crinivirus, family Closteroviridae) is an emerging threat to tomato crops worldwide. Although symptoms on fruits are not obvious, yield losses occur through decreased fruit size and number. Control of ToCV epidemics is difficult because the virus is transmitted by several whitefly vector species and its relatively wide host range facilitates establishment in local wild reservoirs. Therefore, breeding for ToCV resistance offers the best control alternative. However, no sources for resistance are available thus far. Here, a screen of tomatoes and wild species relatives was performed in search of ToCV resistance. Two sources of resistance to ToCV were identified in this work, lines '802-11-1' and '821-13-1', each derived by two self-pollinations from ToCV asymptomatic plants of the population 'IAC CN RT' (derived from an interspecific hybrid Solanum lycopersicum x S. peruvianum accession LA0444) and accession LA1028 (S. chmielewskii), respectively. The resistance was expressed by impairing virus accumulation and disease symptom expression, both under natural infection and after challenging with ToCV in controlled inoculations. Genetic control of resistance to ToCV infection in '821-13-1' was conferred by a major locus with mainly additive effects but also partial dominance for higher susceptibility. Also, an additive x dominance epistatic interaction with at least one additional gene was evident.
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- Elena García-Cano
- Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea La Mayora, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Málaga, Spain
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Genetically engineered virus-resistant plants in developing countries: current status and future prospects. Adv Virus Res 2010; 75:185-220. [PMID: 20109667 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3527(09)07506-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Plant viruses cause severe crop losses worldwide. Conventional control strategies, such as cultural methods and biocide applications against arthropod, nematode, and plasmodiophorid vectors, have limited success at mitigating the impact of plant viruses. Planting resistant cultivars is the most effective and economical way to control plant virus diseases. Natural sources of resistance have been exploited extensively to develop virus-resistant plants by conventional breeding. Non-conventional methods have also been used successfully to confer virus resistance by transferring primarily virus-derived genes, including viral coat protein, replicase, movement protein, defective interfering RNA, non-coding RNA sequences, and protease, into susceptible plants. Non-viral genes (R genes, microRNAs, ribosome-inactivating proteins, protease inhibitors, dsRNAse, RNA modifying enzymes, and scFvs) have also been used successfully to engineer resistance to viruses in plants. Very few genetically engineered (GE) virus resistant (VR) crops have been released for cultivation and none is available yet in developing countries. However, a number of economically important GEVR crops, transformed with viral genes are of great interest in developing countries. The major issues confronting the production and deregulation of GEVR crops in developing countries are primarily socio-economic and related to intellectual property rights, biosafety regulatory frameworks, expenditure to generate GE crops and opposition by non-governmental activists. Suggestions for satisfactory resolution of these factors, presumably leading to field tests and deregulation of GEVR crops in developing countries, are given.
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Gottula J, Fuchs M. Toward a Quarter Century of Pathogen-Derived Resistance and Practical Approaches to Plant Virus Disease Control. Adv Virus Res 2009; 75:161-83. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3527(09)07505-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Coat protein-mediated resistance as an approach for controlling an Egyptian isolate of Cucumber mosaic virus (subgroup I). Biologia (Bratisl) 2008. [DOI: 10.2478/s11756-008-0119-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Morroni M, Thompson JR, Tepfer M. Twenty years of transgenic plants resistant to Cucumber mosaic virus. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2008; 21:675-684. [PMID: 18624632 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-21-6-0675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Plant genetic engineering has promised researchers improved speed and flexibility with regard to the introduction of new traits into cultivated crops. A variety of approaches have been applied to produce virus-resistant transgenic plants, some of which have proven to be remarkably successful. Studies on transgenic resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus probably have been the most intense of any plant virus. Several effective strategies based on pathogen-derived resistance have been identified; namely, resistance mediated by the viral coat protein, the viral replicase, and post-transcriptional gene silencing. Techniques using non-pathogen-derived resistance strategies, some of which could offer broader resistance, generally have proven to be much less effective. Not only do the results obtained so far provide a useful guide to help focus on future strategies, but they also suggest that there are a number of possible mechanisms involved in conferring these resistances. Further detailed studies on the interplay between viral transgene-derived molecules and their host are needed in order to elucidate the mechanisms of resistance and pathogenicity.
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- Marco Morroni
- Plant Virology Group, ICGEB Biosafety Outstation, Via Piovega 23, 31056 Ca' Tron di Roncade, Italy
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Prins M, Laimer M, Noris E, Schubert J, Wassenegger M, Tepfer M. Strategies for antiviral resistance in transgenic plants. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2008; 9:73-83. [PMID: 18705886 PMCID: PMC6640351 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2007.00447.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Genetic engineering offers a means of incorporating new virus resistance traits into existing desirable plant cultivars. The initial attempts to create transgenes conferring virus resistance were based on the pathogen-derived resistance concept. The expression of the viral coat protein gene in transgenic plants was shown to induce protective effects similar to classical cross protection, and was therefore distinguished as 'coat-protein-mediated' protection. Since then, a large variety of viral sequences encoding structural and non-structural proteins were shown to confer resistance. Subsequently, non-coding viral RNA was shown to be a potential trigger for virus resistance in transgenic plants, which led to the discovery of a novel innate resistance in plants, RNA silencing. Apart from the majority of pathogen-derived resistance strategies, alternative strategies involving virus-specific antibodies have been successfully applied. In a separate section, efforts to combat viroids in transgenic plants are highlighted. In a final summarizing section, the potential risks involved in the introduction of transgenic crops and the specifics of the approaches used will be discussed.
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- Marcel Prins
- Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University, Binnenhaven 11, 6709 PD, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Ziebell H, Payne T, Berry JO, Walsh JA, Carr JP. A cucumber mosaic virus mutant lacking the 2b counter-defence protein gene provides protection against wild-type strains. J Gen Virol 2007; 88:2862-2871. [PMID: 17872541 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.83138-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Several plant virus mutants, in which genes encoding silencing suppressor proteins have been deleted, are known to induce systemic or localized RNA silencing against themselves and other RNA molecules containing homologous sequences. Thus, it is thought that many cases of cross-protection, in which infection with a mild or asymptomatic virus mutant protects plants against challenge infection with closely related virulent viruses, can be explained by RNA silencing. We found that a cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) mutant of the subgroup IA strain Fny (Fny-CMVDelta2b), which cannot express the 2b silencing suppressor protein, cross-protects tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) and Nicotiana benthamiana plants against disease induction by wild-type Fny-CMV. However, protection is most effective only if inoculation with Fny-CMVDelta2b and challenge inoculation with wild-type CMV occurs on the same leaf. Unexpectedly, Fny-CMVDelta2b also protected plants against infection with TC-CMV, a subgroup II strain that is not closely related to Fny-CMV. Additionally, in situ hybridization revealed that Fny-CMVDelta2b and Fny-CMV can co-exist in the same tissues but these tissues contain zones of Fny-CMVDelta2b-infected host cells from which Fny-CMV appears to be excluded. Taken together, it appears unlikely that cross-protection by Fny-CMVDelta2b occurs by induction of systemic RNA silencing against itself and homologous RNA sequences in wild-type CMV. It is more likely that protection occurs through either induction of very highly localized RNA silencing, or by competition between strains for host cells or resources.
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- Heiko Ziebell
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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- Warwick HRI, Wellesbourne, Warwick CV35 9EF, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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Research on the molecular biology of cucumoviruses and their plant-virus interactions has been very extensive in the last decade. Cucumovirus genome structures have been analyzed, giving new insights into their genetic variability, evolution, and taxonomy. A new viral gene has been discovered, and its role in promoting virus infection has been delineated. The localization and various functions of each viral-encoded gene product have been established. The particle structures of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and Tomato aspermy virus have been determined. Pathogenicity domains have been mapped, and barriers to virus infection have been localized. The movement pathways of the viruses in some hosts have been discerned, and viral mutants affecting the movement processes have been identified. Host responses to viral infection have been characterized, both temporally and spatially. Progress has been made in determining the mechanisms of replication, gene expression, and transmission of CMV. The pathogenicity determinants of various satellite RNAs have been characterized, and the importance of secondary structure in satellite RNA-mediated interactions has been recognized. Novel plant genes specifying resistance to infection by CMV have been identified. In some cases, these genes have been mapped, and one resistance gene to CMV has been isolated and characterized. Pathogen-derived resistance has been demonstrated against CMV using various segments of the CMV genome, and the mechanisms of some of these forms of resistances have been analyzed. Finally, the nature of synergistic interactions between CMV and other viruses has been characterized. This review highlights these various achievements in the context of the previous work on the biology of cucumoviruses and their interactions with plants.
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- Peter Palukaitis
- Gene Expression Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, United Kingdom
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Shi BJ, Palukaitis P, Symons RH. Differential virulence by strains of Cucumber mosaic virus is mediated by the 2b gene. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2002; 15:947-55. [PMID: 12236601 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi.2002.15.9.947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The approximately 12-kDa 2b protein, encoded by all cucumoviruses, had been shown to play an important role in viral long-distance movement, hypervirulence, and suppression of post-transcriptional gene silencing. The role of the 2b gene in the hypervirulence of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and whether hypervirulence was linked to movement were analyzed using a hybrid virus (CMV-qw), generated by replacing the 2b gene in a subgroup II strain, Q-CMV, with the 2b gene from a subgroup IA strain, WAII-CMV. CMV-qw was more virulent than Q-CMV or WAII-CMV on most of the host plant species tested. Northern blot and nucleotide sequence analyses demonstrated that CMV-qw was stably maintained during the course of infection and upon passage. Kinetic studies revealed that the hypervirulence induced by the hybrid virus was associated with neither increased viral RNA accumulation nor more rapid viral movement per se, suggesting that other functions of the 2b protein are important in determining the hypervirulence.
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- Bu-Jun Shi
- Department of Plant Science, Waite Institute, Adelaide University, Glen Osmond, SA, Australia
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Kim SH, Palukaitis P, Park YI. Phosphorylation of cucumber mosaic virus RNA polymerase 2a protein inhibits formation of replicase complex. EMBO J 2002; 21:2292-300. [PMID: 11980726 PMCID: PMC125983 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/21.9.2292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The 2a (polymerase) protein of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) was shown to be phosphorylated both in vivo and in vitro. In vitro assays using 2a protein mutants and tobacco protein kinases showed that the 2a protein has at least three phosphorylation sites, one of which is located within the N-terminal 126 amino acid region. This region is essential and sufficient for interaction with the CMV 1a protein. When phosphorylated in vitro, the 2a protein N-terminal region failed to interact with the 1a protein. Since the 1a-2a interaction is essential for the replication of CMV, this suggests that phosphorylation of the N-terminal region of the 2a protein negatively modulates the interaction in vivo, and may have a regulatory role acting directly in viral infection.
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- Sang Hyon Kim
- Division of Life Sciences, and Graduate School of Biotechnology, Korea University, 1, 5-ga, Anam-dong, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 136-701, Korea and Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Division of Life Sciences, and Graduate School of Biotechnology, Korea University, 1, 5-ga, Anam-dong, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 136-701, Korea and Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Division of Life Sciences, and Graduate School of Biotechnology, Korea University, 1, 5-ga, Anam-dong, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 136-701, Korea and Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK Corresponding author e-mail:
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Canto T, Palukaitis P. A cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) RNA 1 transgene mediates suppression of the homologous viral RNA 1 constitutively and prevents CMV entry into the phloem. J Virol 2001; 75:9114-20. [PMID: 11533175 PMCID: PMC114480 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.19.9114-9120.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) in tobacco lines transformed with CMV RNA 1 is characterized by reduced virus accumulation in the inoculated leaf, with specific suppression of accumulation of the homologous viral RNA 1, and by the absence of systemic infection. We show that the suppression of viral RNA 1 occurs in protoplasts from resistant transgenic plants and therefore is not due to a host response activated by the cell-to-cell spread of virus. In contrast, suppression of Tobacco rattle virus vectors carrying CMV RNA 1 sequences did not occur in protoplasts from resistant plants. Furthermore, steady-state levels of transgene mRNA 1 were higher in resistant than in susceptible lines. Thus, the data indicate that sequence homology is not sufficient to induce suppression. Grafting experiments using transgenic resistant or susceptible rootstocks and scions demonstrated that the resistance mechanism exhibited an additional barrier to phloem entry, preventing CMV from moving a long distance in resistant plants. On the other hand, virus from susceptible rootstocks could systemically infect grafted resistant scions via the phloem. Analysis of viral RNA accumulation in the infected scions showed that the mechanism that suppresses the accumulation of viral RNA 1 at the single-cell level was overcome. The data indicate that this transgene-mediated systemic resistance probably is not based on a posttranscriptional gene-silencing mechanism.
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- T Canto
- Virology Unit, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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