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Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331-3804.
Transgenic tobacco plants which express untranslatable sense or antisense forms of the tobacco etch virus potyvirus (TEV) coat protein (CP) gene sequence have been generated. One of seven transgenic plant lines expressing a CP gene antisense transcript showed an attenuation of symptoms when inoculated with TEV. Three of ten transgenic plant lines expressing untranslatable sense transcripts did not develop symptoms when inoculated with TEV. These lines were resistant to either aphid or mechanically transmitted TEV. In contrast to CP-mediated resistance reported for other viruses, resistance was (1) mediated by an RNA molecule; (2) TEV-specific (i.e., "broad-spectrum resistance" was not observed); (3) independent of inoculum levels; (4) not dependent on plant size and; (5) due to decreased levels of virus replication. Protoplast experiments were used to demonstrate that resistant plant lines did not support the production of virus protein and progeny virus at wild-type levels.
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