Viral Cross Protection: More Understanding is Needed
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Scientific Societies in Phytopathology®
- Vol. 66 (4) , 382-383
- https://doi.org/10.1094/phyto-66-382
Abstract
This letter discusses the postulations made by deZoeten and Fulton (1975) theorizing that the molecular basis for cross protection is the elimination of the genome (RNA) of a superinfecting related virus by its capture in the coat protein of the virus of the original infection. Experimental evidence from tobacco mosaic virus does not support their theory but does not supply enough evidence to propose a new theory.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Two mutants of tobacco mosaic virus temperature-sensitive in two different functionsVirology, 1968
- THE ISOLATION OF DEFECTIVE TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS STRAINSProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1962