{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Lee CH"],"funding":["Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan"],"pagination":["571-588"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7060137"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["21(4)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Begomoviruses of the Geminiviridae are usually transmitted by whiteflies and rarely by mechanical inoculation. We used tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV), a bipartite begomovirus, to address this issue. Most ToLCNDV isolates are not mechanically transmissible to their natural hosts. The ToLCNDV-OM isolate, originally identified from a diseased oriental melon plant, is mechanically transmissible, while the ToLCNDV-CB isolate, from a diseased cucumber plant, is not. Genetic swapping and pathological tests were performed to identify the molecular determinants involved in mechanical transmission. Various viral infectious clones were constructed and successfully introduced into Nicotiana benthamiana, oriental melon, and cucumber plants by Agrobacterium-mediated inoculation. Mechanical t"],"journal":["Molecular plant pathology"],"pubmed_title":["A single amino acid substitution in the movement protein enables the mechanical transmission of a geminivirus."],"pmcid":["PMC7060137"],"funding_grant_id":["101‐2313‐B‐005‐039‐MY3 and 105‐2313‐B‐005‐019‐MY3"],"pubmed_authors":["Chan CH","Lee CH","Zheng YX","Chang CJ","Ku HM","Jan FJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"A single amino acid substitution in the movement protein enables the mechanical transmission of a geminivirus.","description":"Begomoviruses of the Geminiviridae are usually transmitted by whiteflies and rarely by mechanical inoculation. We used tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV), a bipartite begomovirus, to address this issue. Most ToLCNDV isolates are not mechanically transmissible to their natural hosts. The ToLCNDV-OM isolate, originally identified from a diseased oriental melon plant, is mechanically transmissible, while the ToLCNDV-CB isolate, from a diseased cucumber plant, is not. Genetic swapping and pathological tests were performed to identify the molecular determinants involved in mechanical transmission. Various viral infectious clones were constructed and successfully introduced into Nicotiana benthamiana, oriental melon, and cucumber plants by Agrobacterium-mediated inoculation. Mechanical t","dates":{"release":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2020 Apr","modification":"2026-04-16T21:03:40.202Z","creation":"2020-05-22T12:59:49Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC7060137","cross_references":{"pubmed":["32078762"],"doi":["10.1111/mpp.12917"]}}