Antiviral RNA interference inhibits virus vertical transmission in plants.
Cell Host Microbe
; 2024 Sep 02.
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ABSTRACT
Known for over a century, seed transmission of plant viruses promotes trans-continental virus dissemination and provides the source of infection to trigger devastating disease epidemics in crops. However, it remains unknown whether there is a genetically defined immune pathway to suppress virus vertical transmission in plants. Here, we demonstrate potent immunosuppression of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) seed transmission in its natural host Arabidopsis thaliana by antiviral RNA interference (RNAi) pathway. Immunofluorescence microscopy reveals predominant embryo infection at four stages of embryo development. We show that antiviral RNAi confers resistance to seed infection with different genetic requirements and drastically enhanced potency compared with the inhibition of systemic infection of whole plants. Moreover, we detect efficient seed transmission of a mutant CMV lacking its RNAi suppressor gene in mutant plants defective in antiviral RNAi, providing further support for the immunosuppression of seed transmission by antiviral RNAi.
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MEDLINE
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Cell Host Microbe
Asunto de la revista:
MICROBIOLOGIA
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2024
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Article
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Estados Unidos