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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2014

TRV-GFP: a modified Tobacco rattle virus vector for efficient and visualizable analysis of gene function.

Ji Tian, Haixia Pei, Shuai Zhang, Jiwei Chen, Wen Chen, Ruoyun Yang, Yonglu Meng, Jie You, Junping Gao, Nan Ma

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Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers.

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10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ji TianDepartment of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
Haixia Pei
Shuai Zhang
Jiwei Chen
Wen Chen
Ruoyun Yang
Yonglu Meng
Jie You
Junping Gao
Nan Ma
China Agricultural University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a useful tool for functional characterization of genes in plants. Unfortunately, the efficiency of infection by Tobacco rattle virus (TRV) is relatively low for some non-Solanaceae plants, which are economically important, such as rose (Rosa sp.). Here, to generate an easy traceable TRV vector, a green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene was tagged to the 3' terminus of the coat protein gene in the original TRV2 vector, and the silencing efficiency of the modified TRV-GFP vector was tested in several plants, including Nicotiana benthamiana, Arabidopsis thaliana, rose, strawberry (Fragaria ananassa), and chrysanthemum (Dendranthema grandiflorum). The results showed that the efficiency of infection by TRV-GFP was equal to that of the original TRV vector in each tested plant. Spread of the modified TRV virus was easy to monitor by using fluorescent microscopy and a hand-held UV lamp. When TRV-GFP was used to silence the endogenous phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene in rose cuttings and seedlings, the typical photobleached phenotype was observed in 75-80% plants which were identified as GFP positive by UV lamp. In addition, the abundance of GFP protein, which represented the concentration of TRV virus, was proved to correlate negatively with the level of the PDS gene, suggesting that GFP could be used as an indicator of the degree of silencing of a target gene. Taken together, this work provides a visualizable and efficient tool to predict positive gene silencing plants, which is valuable for research into gene function in plants, especially for non-Solanaceae plants.

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Gene Expression Regulation, PlantGene SilencingGenetic VectorsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMagnoliopsidaNicotianaOxidoreductasesPhenotypePlant LeavesPlant ProteinsPlants, Genetically ModifiedPlant StemsPlant VirusesRecombinant Fusion ProteinsSeedlingsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsOxidoreductasesphytoene dehydrogenasePlant ProteinsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsArabidopsis thalianagene silencingNicotiana benthamianaRosa sp.TRV–GFPVIGS.

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PMCPMC3883300
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