An effective and convenient method for the delivery of apple latent spherical virus (ALSV)-based vectors into plant cells by agroinoculation

Methods Mol Biol. 2015:1287:191-9. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2453-0_14.

Abstract

Virus infection leads to the synthesis of double-stranded RNA during virus replication, and then this infection produces small RNA molecules in the antiviral RNA silencing pathway. Here, we develop an Agrobacterium-mediated inoculation system for ALSV-based vectors. This system is more effective and convenient for inoculation of the ALSV vectors into plants compared to direct inoculation of ALSV-RNA2-based vectors in pUC plasmids reported previously. In addition, cointroduction of various plant viral RNA-silencing suppressors increased the efficiency of agroinoculation of the ALSV-based vector. An ALSV vector could be successfully used to silence an endogenous gene in plants. Therefore, the ALSV-based VIGS/agroinoculation system provides a valuable tool for functional genomics among a broad range of plant species.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Agrobacterium / genetics
  • Agrobacterium / physiology*
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
  • Gene Silencing
  • Genetic Vectors / genetics
  • Plant Proteins / genetics
  • Plant Viruses / genetics
  • Plants / genetics
  • Plants / microbiology*
  • Plants / virology
  • RNA Viruses / genetics*

Substances

  • Plant Proteins