Items for "Nicotiana benthamiana"

Accumulation of viroid-specific small RNAs and increase in nucleolytic activities linked to viroid-caused pathogenesis

Strong viroid-caused pathogenesis was achieved in tomato cv. Rutgers by biolistic transfer of severe or lethal potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) strains, while other tomato genotypes (e.g., Moneymaker) were tolerant...

Keywords: biolistic inoculation, disease symptoms, Lycopersicon esculentum, Nicotiana benthamiana, plant nucleases, potato spindle tuber viroid, silencing