Three major viruses, alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV), bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) and soybean mosaic virus (SMV), cause significant losses in the yield and quality of soybean seeds in Ohio. Although SMV can be partially contained with a resistance gene, genetic resistance against AMV and BPMV is either not well defined (AMV) or unavailable (BPMV). Thus it is necessary to engineer multi-virus resistance in transgenic plants. We have carried out studies to generate transgenic soybeans that confer resistance to all three viruses with one single transgene construct. We now propose to evaluate the resulting transgenic plants. Approximately ten lines of transgenic plants will be screened to identify...
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#alfalfa mosaic virus, #bean pod mottle virus (bpmv), #breeding & genetics, #molecular engineering, #soybean mosaic virus (smv), #soybean viruses