Abstract
Plant and animal RNA viruses are increasingly used for gene delivery and expression in a variety of host cells. At a molecular level these agents can be viewed as cytosolic parasites of the ribosome, successfully competing for translation with the host messenger RNA (mRNA) population. In many virus-infected plants, modified plasmodesmata between adjacent cells enable movement of progeny virus throughout the whole organism. Because of this unique virus-host interaction, crop plants provide an inexpensive source of biomass available for rapid genetic manipulations.
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Turpen, T.H., Reinl, S.J. (1998). Tobamovirus Vectors for Expression of Recombinant Genes in Plants. In: Cunningham, C., Porter, A.J.R. (eds) Recombinant Proteins from Plants. Methods in Biotechnology, vol 3. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-260-5_8
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