The tomato yellow leaf curl virus C4 protein alters the expression of plant developmental genes correlating to leaf upward cupping phenotype in tomato.

ABSTRACT: Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), a monopartite begomovirus in the family Geminiviridae, is efficiently transmitted by the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, and causes serious economic losses to tomato crops around the world. TYLCV-infected tomato plants develop distinctive symptoms of yellowing and leaf upward cupping. In recent years, excellent progress has been made in the characterization of TYLCV C4 protein function as a pathogenicity determinant in experimental plants, including Nicotiana benthamiana and Arabidopsis thaliana. However, the molecular mechanism leading to disease symptom development in the natural host plant, tomato, has yet to be characterized. The aim of the current study was to generate transgenic tomato plants expressing the TYLCV C4 gene and evaluate differential gene

SUBMITTER: Padmanabhan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9098041 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature