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W E Gardiner1, G Sunter, L Brand
1Department of Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.
Abstract:
The geminiviruses are a unique group of higher plant viruses that are composed of twin isometric particles which contain circular, single-stranded DNA. Tomato golden mosaic virus (TGMV), a whitefly-transmitted agent, belongs to the subgroup of geminiviruses whose members possess a bipartite genome. The TGMV A genome component has the capacity to encode at least four proteins. One of these is the viral coat protein, as inferred by homology with coat-protein, genes of other geminiviruses and by the observation of typical geminate particles in transgenic plants that contain inserts of TGMV A DNA. We have investigated the role of the coat protein in TGMV replication and report here that its coding sequence may be interrupted or substantially deleted without loss of infectivity. However, certain coat-protein mutants showed reproducible delays in time of symptom appearance as well as reduced symptom development, when inoculated onto transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plants containing the TGMV B component. The most attenuated symptoms were seen with a mutant in which the coat-protein coding sequence was almost entirely deleted. The significance of these findings for the development of plant vectors from TGMV DNA is discussed.
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