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Lack of correlation between the coat protein composition of tobacco mosaic virus isolates and their ability to infect resistant tomato plants
Author(s) -
DAWSON J. R. O.,
REES M. W.,
SHORT MARGARET N.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1979.tb06512.x
Subject(s) - tobacco mosaic virus , biology , coat protein , methionine , coat , plant virus , virus , tobamovirus , potato virus x , potexvirus , virology , composition (language) , potyvirus , alfalfa mosaic virus , amino acid , gene , genetics , rna , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy
SUMMARY The differing responses of a wide range of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) isolates to various genes controlling resistance in tomato were not correlated with the amino acid composition of their coat proteins. Nor were they necessarily linked with ability to cause necrotic local lesions in White Burley tobacco, which is usually associated with the presence of methionine in the coat protein.