An induced mutation in tomato eIF4E leads to immunity to two potyviruses.

BACKGROUNDThe characterization of pure recessive resistance genes and Arabidopsis virus-resistant mutants have implicated translation initiation components of the eIF4E and eIF4G households as susceptibility components required for virus an infection and resistance perform.RESULTSTo examine additional the position of translation initiation components in virus resistance we arrange a TILLING platform in tomato, cloned genes encoding for translation initiation components eIF4E and eIF4G and screened for induced mutations that result in virus resistance. A splicing mutant of the eukaryotic translation initiation issue, […]