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Rosa Hybrid Gene Gapc Is Mutated In The Presence Of The Rose Rosette Virus, William A. Beams, Eva L. Burelos, Charles C. Hundley, Landon R. Dame, Laura G. Sims, Jacob J. Adler
Rosa Hybrid Gene Gapc Is Mutated In The Presence Of The Rose Rosette Virus, William A. Beams, Eva L. Burelos, Charles C. Hundley, Landon R. Dame, Laura G. Sims, Jacob J. Adler
Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship
Rose Rosette Disease (RRD) harms the global rose supply by modification of the growth and development in rose cultivar. RRD spreads via a negative-sense RNA plant virus transmitted by eriophyid mites. Importantly, there is no pre-existing knowledge about the biochemistry by which this virus debilitates roses. Here we implicate glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), one of the major metabolic enzymes in plants, as a possible target of the virus. Genomic DNA of the cytosolic form of the protein encoded by GAPC was extracted from both virally-infected and non-infected samples of the Rosa hybrid cultivar Rosa Tropicana. The sequence results provided several distinct …