The production of therapeutic and industrial recombinant proteins in plants has advantages
over established bacterial and mammalian systems in terms of cost, scalability, growth …

Since the development, in the 1970s, ofmethods for manipulating genes (recombinant DNA
technology), there has beengreatinterest in the design of systems for expressing proteins in …

Concerns have been raised over the spread of transgenic DNA by horizontal gene transfer.
One main factor determining the success of horizontal gene transfer is its tendency to …

RNAi (RNA interference) is an important defense response against virus infection in plants.
The core machinery of the RNAi pathway in plants include DCL (Dicer Like), AGO …

Multiple variants of the Cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter (P35S) are used to drive the
expression of transgenes in genetically modified plants, for both research purposes and …

Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) transactivator/viroplasmin (Tav) is an essential
multifunctional viral protein. Dissection of Tav by deletion mutagenesis revealed that the …

Plant disease resistance (R) gene-mediated effector-triggered immunity (ETI) is usually
associated with hypersensitive response (HR) and provides robust and race-specific …

The permanent organs of grapevines (Vitis vinifera L.), like those of other woody perennials,
are colonized by various unrelated pathogenic ascomycete fungi secreting cell wall …

Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) transactivator/viroplasmin (Tav) is a multifunctional protein
essential for basic replication of CaMV. It also plays a role in viral pathogenesis in crucifer …

Gene silencing is a multifaceted phenomenon leading to propagative down-regulation of
gene expression. Gene silencing, first observed in plants containing transgenes, can …