Engineering plant virus resistance: from RNA silencing to genome editing strategies

Y Zhao, X Yang, G Zhou, T Zhang - Plant Biotechnology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Viral diseases severely affect crop yield and quality, thereby threatening global food
security. Genetic improvement of plant virus resistance is essential for sustainable …

Small RNA based genetic engineering for plant viral resistance: application in crop protection

A Khalid, Q Zhang, M Yasir, F Li - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Small RNAs regulate a large set of gene expression in all plants and constitute a natural
immunity against viruses. Small RNA based genetic engineering (SRGE) technology had …

RNA interference and crop protection against biotic stresses

R Kaur, A Choudhury, S Chauhan, A Ghosh… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2021 - Springer
RNA interference (RNAi) is a universal phenomenon of RNA silencing or gene silencing
with broader implications in important physiological and developmental processes of most …

Survey, detection, characterization of papaya ringspot virus from southern India and management of papaya ringspot disease

U Premchand, RK Mesta, V Devappa… - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) is a significant threat to global papaya cultivation, causing
ringspot disease, and it belongs to the species Papaya ringspot virus, genus Potyvirus, and …

Potyviral gene-silencing suppressor HCPro interacts with salicylic acid (SA)-binding protein 3 to weaken SA-mediated defense responses

S Poque, HW Wu, CH Huang… - Molecular Plant …, 2018 - Am Phytopath Society
The viral infection process is a battle between host defense response and pathogen
antagonizing action. Several studies have established a tight link between the viral RNA …

Use of RNAi technology to develop a PRSV-resistant transgenic papaya

R Jia, H Zhao, J Huang, H Kong, Y Zhang, J Guo… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) seriously limits papaya (Carica papaya L.) production in
tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world. Coat protein (CP)-transgenic papaya …

Modification of papaya ringspot virus HC-Pro to generate effective attenuated mutants for overcoming the problem of strain-specific cross protection

HW Cheng, TT Lin, CH Huang, JAJ Raja… - Plant …, 2023 - Am Phytopath Society
Cross protection application of HA5-1, an attenuated mutant of papaya ringspot virus
(PRSV) HA strain from Hawaii, was withdrawn from Taiwan due to the narrow geographic …

Generation of mild recombinants of papaya ringspot virus to minimize the problem of strain-specific cross-protection

TTY Tran, TT Lin, CP Chang, CH Chen… - …, 2022 - Am Phytopath Society
Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) causes severe damage to papaya (Carica papaya L.) and is
the primary limiting factor for papaya production worldwide. A nitrous acid-induced mild …

Transgene-mediated resistance to Papaya ringspot virus: challenges and solutions

I Hamim, WB Borth, J Marquez, JC Green, MJ Melzer… - Phytoparasitica, 2018 - Springer
Global papaya production is severely affected by papaya ringspot disease caused by
Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV). Management of this potyvirus is challenging, due to 1) its non …

Concurrent control of two aphid-borne potyviruses in cucurbits by two-in-one vaccine

TNB Tran, HW Cheng, XY Xie, JAJ Raja… - Phytopathology …, 2023 - Am Phytopath Society
The application of attenuated viruses has been widely practiced for protecting crops from
infection by related severe strains of the same species. Papaya ringspot virus W-type (PRSV …