The Plant Pathology Journal 2012;28(1):81-86.
Published online March 31, 2012.
Research Notes : Application of a Reassortant Cucumber mosaic virus Vector for Gene Silencing in Tomato and Chili Pepper Plants
Jin Sung Hong, Sun Ju Rhee, Eun Ji Kim, Tae Sung Kim, Ki Hyun Ryu, Chikara Masuta, Gung Pyo Lee
Abstract
We developed a reassortant RNA virus vector derived from Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), which has advantages of very wide host range and can efficiently induce gene silencing in a few model plants. Certain CMV isolates, however, show limited host ranges presumably because they naturally co-evolved with their own hosts. We used a reassortant comprised of two strains of CMV, Y-CMV and Gn-CMV, to broaden the host range and to develop a virus vector for virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS). Gn-CMV could infect chili pepper and tomato more efficiently than Y-CMV. Gn-CMV RNA1, 3 and Y-CMV RNA2-A1 vector were newly reconstructed, and the transcript mixture of RNA1 and 3 genomes of Gn-CMV and RNA2 genome of Y-CMV RNA2 containing portions of the endogenous phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene (CMV2A1::PDSs) was inoculated onto chili pepper (cv. Chung-yang), tomato (cvs. Bloody butcher, Tigerella, Silvery fir tree, and Czech bush) and Nicotiana benthamiana. All the tested plants infected by the reassortant CMV vector showed typical photo-bleaching phenotypes and reduced expression levels of PDS mRNA. These results suggest that the reassortant CMV vector would be a useful tool for the rapid induction of the RNA silencing of endogenous genes in chili pepper and tomato plants.
Key Words: Cucumber mosaic virus vector, endogenous gene, phytoene desaturase, RNA silencing


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