title: Identification of siRNA generating hot spots in multiple viral suppressors to generate broad-spectrum antiviral resistance in plants.
abstract: Viruses are one of the most devastating plant pathogens causing severe economic losses worldwide. RNA silencing is a robust technology to knock down the expression of specific genes. This mechanism can be exploited to generate virus resistant plants through expression of the viral derived sequences. Viruses in turn have evolved to encode suppressors of RNA silencing to combat host defense. Mixed infection of plants is of common occurrence in nature and simultaneous targeting of suppressor(s) of multiple viruses offers an effective strategy. In this study, we have in silico designed siRNAs against suppressors of the two most devastating viruses of tomato, leaf curl causing tomato begomoviruses and Cucumber mosaic virus. Three different siRNA prediction programs were used to evaluate siRNAs generating capability of each sequence and common putative candidate siRNAs were selected fulfilling the stringent parameters. Our results indicated that in the case of each suppressor a particular region of 100-150 base pairs could be source of potent siRNAs referred as hotspots. Expression of these viral hot spots as a single construct in the plants would facilitate development of transgenic plants with a high degree of broad spectrum resistance against multiple viruses.
authors: School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
authors: Veerendra Kumar
authors: VK
authors: Sharma
authors: School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
authors: Nirbhay
authors: N
authors: Kushwaha
authors: School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
authors: Saumik
authors: S
authors: Basu
authors: School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
authors: Ashish Kumar
authors: AK
authors: Singh
authors: School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
authors: Supriya
authors: S
authors: Chakraborty
keywords: CMV; Geminivirus; Mixed infection; RNA silencing; Viral suppressors; siRNA
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