DSpace Repository

Transient expression of homologous hairpin RNA interferes with PVY transmission by aphids

Show simple item record

dc.creator Vargas, Marisol
dc.creator Martínez-García, Belén
dc.creator Díaz-Ruíz, José Ramón
dc.creator Tenllado, Francisco
dc.date 2008-03-26T00:20:02Z
dc.date 2008-03-26T00:20:02Z
dc.date 2008-03-19
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:00:56Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:00:56Z
dc.identifier Virology Journal 5:42(2008)
dc.identifier 1743-422X
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3306
dc.identifier 10.1186/1743-422X-5-42
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3306
dc.description Hairpin RNAs have been used to confer resistance to viruses in plants through RNA silencing. However, it has not been demonstrated that RNA silencing was effective against inoculation by aphids of non-persistently transmitted viruses, the major route of plant virus spread in nature. As a proof-of-principle strategy, we made use of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to transiently express a hairpin RNA homologous to Potato virus Y (PVY) in plant tissues. A complete and specific interference with aphid transmission of PVY was achieved by inducers of RNA silencing, as demonstrated by specific siRNAs accumulation in agroinfiltrated tissues. To our knowledge, this is the first report of successful interference with non-persistent transmission of a plant virus using RNA interference.
dc.description MV was supported by doctoral fellowships from CONICYT-BID (Chile). This work was supported by grant BIO2006-10944 from CICYT-MEC (Spain).
dc.description Peer reviewed
dc.format 918366 bytes
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher BioMed Central
dc.relation Publisher’s version
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Plant viruses
dc.subject Potato Virus Y
dc.subject Transmission by aphids
dc.subject Hairpin RNAs
dc.subject RNA interference
dc.subject RNA silencing
dc.title Transient expression of homologous hairpin RNA interferes with PVY transmission by aphids
dc.type Artículo


Files in this item

Files Size Format View

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search DSpace


Advanced Search

Browse

My Account