Tomato bushy stunt virus

Tomato bushy stunt virus
The capsid of the tomato bushy stunt virus, with the three symmetrically distinct coat protein (p41) monomers colored in orange, green, and blue.[1]
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(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Kitrinoviricota
Class: Tolucaviricetes
Order: Tolivirales
Family: Tombusviridae
Genus: Tombusvirus
Species:
Tomato bushy stunt virus

Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) is a virus of the tombusvirus family.[2] It was first reported in tomatoes in 1935 and primarily affects vegetable crops, though it is not generally considered an economically significant plant pathogen. Depending upon the host, TBSV causes stunting of growth, leaf mottling, and deformed or absent fruit. The virus is likely to be soil-borne in the natural setting, but can also be transmitted mechanically, for example through contaminated cutting tools. TBSV has been used as a model system in virology research on the life cycle of plant viruses, particularly in experimental infections of the model host plant Nicotiana benthamiana.[3][4]

  1. ^ Hopper, P; Harrison, SC; Sauer, RT (25 August 1984). "Structure of tomato bushy stunt virus. V. Coat protein sequence determination and its structural implications". Journal of Molecular Biology. 177 (4): 701–13. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(84)90045-7. PMID 6481803.
  2. ^ Mahy, Brian W. J.; Regenmortel, Marc H. V. Van (15 October 2009). Desk Encyclopedia of Plant and Fungal Virology. Academic Press. pp. 445–. ISBN 978-0-12-375148-5. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  3. ^ Scholthof, Herman B. (6 March 2006). "The Tombusvirus-encoded P19: from irrelevance to elegance". Nature Reviews Microbiology. 4 (5): 405–411. doi:10.1038/nrmicro1395. PMID 16518419. S2CID 30361458.
  4. ^ Yamamura, Y; Scholthof, HB (1 September 2005). "Tomato bushy stunt virus: a resilient model system to study virus-plant interactions". Molecular Plant Pathology. 6 (5): 491–502. doi:10.1111/j.1364-3703.2005.00301.x. PMID 20565674.