发布: 2016年12月20日第6卷第24期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2063 浏览次数: 16048
评审: Arsalan DaudiTie LiuAnonymous reviewer(s)
Abstract
Potato Virus X (PVX) is the type member of Potexvirus genus, a group of plant viruses with a positive-strand RNA genome (~6.4 kb). PVX is able to establish compatible infections in Nicotiana benthamiana, a commonly used host in plant virology, leading to mild symptoms, such as chlorotic mosaic and mottling. PVX has been widely used as a viral vector for more than two decades (Chapman et al., 1992; Baulcombe et al., 1995; Aguilar et al., 2015). It provides a feasible means for the systemic expression in plants of heterologous proteins, such as avirulence factors, proteins with pharmacological properties, etc., (Hammond-Kosack et al., 1995; Gleba et al., 2014), and also as a tool to help decipher the function of genes in plants by virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) (Lacomme and Chapman, 2008). Two different protocols, i.e., rubbing (A) and agroinfiltration (B), that allow efficient multiplication and propagation of PVX in N. benthamiana are described here in detail. The rubbing method requires previously infected sap, and infection is achieved by inducing mechanical damages to leaf tissue, allowing viral particles to penetrate the plant surface. Agroinfiltration needs previously modified Agrobacterium to carry and deliver T-DNA with PVX sequences into the plant cell. Agrobacterium is grown until saturation and infection is established by infiltrating it into plant tissue with a syringe. Any of these two methods can be successfully applied, and the choice should be based mainly on the availability of material and time, but it is recommended to use agroinfiltration when chimeric viruses are being used.
Keywords: Potato Virus X (马铃薯X病毒)Background
PVX is transmitted by mechanical means, so the easiest and fastest way to infect plants is by rubbing the leaves with sap from infected tissue. However, since RNA viruses have high mutation rates, caution must be taken when rubbing is used as propagation method. In this regard, the number of serial passages between plants should be limited, and the inoculum should be used fresh from original stocks. To solve this inconvenience, an infectious PVX cDNA clone has been introduced into a binary T-DNA vector, which allows its easy delivery into N. benthamiana by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Agroinfiltration should be considered as preferred method when recombinant PVX is being used, in order to prevent serial propagation of deleted viral forms from a previous experiment to the next one (Chung et al., 2007).
Materials and Reagents
Equipment
Procedure
文章信息
版权信息
© 2016 The Authors; exclusive licensee Bio-protocol LLC.
如何引用
Aguilar, E., del Toro, F. J., Chung, B., Canto, T. and Tenllado, F. (2016). Infection of Nicotiana benthamiana Plants with Potato Virus X (PVX). Bio-protocol 6(24): e2063. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2063.
分类
植物科学 > 植物免疫 > 病害生物测定
植物科学 > 植物免疫 > 宿主-细菌相互作用
您对这篇实验方法有问题吗?
在此处发布您的问题,我们将邀请本文作者来回答。同时,我们会将您的问题发布到Bio-protocol Exchange,以便寻求社区成员的帮助。
提问指南
+ 问题描述
写下详细的问题描述,包括所有有助于他人回答您问题的信息(例如实验过程、条件和相关图像等)。
Share
Bluesky
X
Copy link