threat to cotton production in the Indian subcontinent. The disease has been shown to be
associated with four distinct species, including Cotton leaf curl Kokhran virus (CLCuKoV),
and a specific betasatellite—Cotton leaf curl Multan betasatellite (CLCuMuB). Transgenic
Nicotiana benthamiana plants were produced which constitutively express the Escherichia
coli phage M13 encoded, sequence nonspecific single-stranded (ss) DNA-binding protein …