▪ Abstract The discovery that plants recognize and degrade invading viral RNA caused a
paradigm shift in our understanding of viral/host interactions. Combined with the discovery …

Microparticle bombardment technology has evolved as a method for delivering exogenous
nucleic acids into plant cells and is a commonly employed technique in plant science …

Leaves undergo a sink–source transition during which a physiological change occurs from
carbon import to export. In sink leaves, biolistic bombardment of plasmids encoding GFP …

In eukaryotes, membrane contact sites (MCS) allow direct communication between
organelles. Plants have evolved a unique type of MCS, inside intercellular pores, the …

Chlorophyll is a central player in harvesting light energy for photosynthesis, yet the rate-
limiting steps of chlorophyll catabolism and the regulation of the catabolic enzymes remain …

From the characterization of the recessive resistance gene, sbm1, in pea we have identified
the eukaryotic translation initiation factor, eIF4E, as a susceptibility factor required for …

The helper component-proteinase (HC-Pro) protein of potyviruses is a suppressor of gene
silencing and has been shown to elicit plant developmental-defect-like symptoms. In …

The recessive resistance genes pot-1 and pvr2 in Lycopersicon hirsutum and Capsicum
annuum, respectively, control Potato virus Y (PVY) accumulation in the inoculated leaves …

Transmission of zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) by aphids was examined by
introducing mutations within the highly conserved proline-threonine-lysine (PTK) motif of the …

cDNA clones of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) RNA 3 were modified to express the jellyfish
green fluorescent protein (GFP) in place of the 3a movement protein (MP) or coat protein …