Nucleotide cDNA Sequence Coding for the PeSMV Coat Protein and the 3´ Region

P RABINOWICZ; F BRAVO-ALMONACID; A MENTABERRY

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS

Año: 1993 vol. 103 p. 1023 - 1023

0032-0889

PeSMV was originally isolated in Argentina from diseased Capsicum annuum plants and classed as a possible member of the potyvirus group on the basis of morphological, biological, and immunological evidence (Feldman and Gracia,1977). Although information concerning its economic significance is still imprecise, the virus is present in most pepperproducing areas and yields are drastically reduced in chronically infected plants. As part of a project to obtain resistant transgenic plants by means of coat protein-mediated protection, we cloned the PeSMV gRNA and obtained a partial nucleotide sequence of the PeSMV genome including the 3’ and of the replicase gene, the complete CP gene, and the 3’ noncoding region