1991/01/01 by David Atkins, D. Atkins, R. Hull +8 · 2 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Plant Virus Research Studies #Plant tissue culture and regeneration #Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
paper · doi:10.1099/0022-1317-72-1-209
Transgenic tobacco plants expressing a gene encoding the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) movement protein (30K) were studied using immunocytochemical techniques. The movement protein was shown to be localized within or on most of the plasmodesmata observed in the transformed plant. These results are consistent with the idea that the movement protein interacts with the plasmodesmata to facilitate the cell-to-cell spread of TMV.