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SUBMITTER: Hallwass M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6638845 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hallwass Mariana M de Oliveira Athos Silva AS de Campos Dianese Erico E Lohuis Dick D Boiteux Leonardo Silva LS Inoue-Nagata Alice Kazuko AK Resende Renato O RO Kormelink Richard R
Molecular plant pathology 20140511 9
Although the Sw-5 gene cluster has been cloned, and Sw-5b has been identified as the functional gene copy that confers resistance to Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), its avirulence (Avr) determinant has not been identified to date. Nicotiana tabacum 'SR1' plants transformed with a copy of the Sw-5b gene are immune without producing a clear visual response on challenge with TSWV, whereas it is shown here that N. benthamiana transformed with Sw-5b gives a rapid and conspicuous hypersensitive resp ...[more]