Constraints to virus infection in Nicotiana benthamiana plants transformed with a potyvirus amplicon.docVIP

Calvo et al. BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10:139 /1471-2229/10/139 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Constraints to virus infection in Research article Nicotiana benthamiana plants transformed with a potyvirus amplicon María Calvo1, Gabriela Dujovny1, Cristina Lucini1,2, Jesús Ortu?o1, Josefa M Alamillo1,3, Carmen Simón-Mateo1, Juan José López-Moya1,4 and Juan Antonio García*1 Abstract Background: Plant genomes have been transformed with full-length cDNA copies of viral genomes, giving rise to what has been called amplicon systems, trying to c