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Transgenic tobacco plants have been obtained expressing nucleoprotein (N) gene sequences of three different tospoviruses known to affect vegetable crops: tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), tomato chlorotic spot virus (TCSV), and groundnut ringspot virus (GRSV). The chimeric plant transformation vector used comprised the three viral N gene sequences, each with a copy of the CaMV 35S promoter and the nos terminator. Despite the high levels of homology between the different N gene sequences (74-82%) and the presence of repeated promoter and terminator sequences in this construct, unrearranged copies of this triple N gene construct were stably maintained in both Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens plasmids used during the cloning process, as well as in several generations of transgenic tobacco plants. A transgenic tobacco line was obtained that exhibited high levels of resistance to all three tospoviruses, showing the possibility of producing transgenic plants with a broad resistance to tospoviruses by introducing tandemly cloned viral N gene sequences. DNA analysis of this transgenic plant line shows that the multivirus resistance trait is confined to a single genetic locus, which is very convenient for further breeding purposes.
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