Tomato mosaic virus(ToMV)drastically affects the tomato production worldwide.To deal with this problem,breeding of ToMV-resistant hybrids/varieties is the ultimate need and most successful approach.In wild tomato spec...
This research was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31471921,91540118,31622050,and 31672208)to H.Z;T.W.was supported by a fellowship from the Chinese Scholarship Council.
The tomato encode four functional DCL families,of which DCL2 is poorly studied.Here,we generated loss-of-function mutants for a tomato DCL2 gene,dcl2b,and we identified its major role in defending against tomato mosai...