A plant virus causes symptoms through the deployment of a host-mimicking protein domain to attract the insect vector
M. Gao, E. Aguilar, B. Garnelo Gomez, L. Medina-Puche, P. Fan, I. Ontiveros, S. Pan, H. Tan, E. von Roepenack-Lahaye, N. Chen, X.-W. Wang, D. C. Baulcombe, E. R. Bejarano, J. A. Diaz-Pendon, M. Furutani, , R. Lozano-Duran
This study identifies how the tomato yellow leaf curl virus uses a host-mimicking protein domain to disrupt plant processes and attract insect vectors, facilitating viral spread.
bioRxiv · Dec 16, 2022Plant Biology