Carnation is one of the most important species on the worldwide market of cut flowers. Commercial carnation cultivars are vegetatively propagated from terminal stem cuttings that undergo a rooting and acclimation process. For some of the new cultivars that are being developed by ornamental breeders, poor adventitious root (AR) formation limits its commercial scaling-up, due to a significant inc...

Plant viral movement proteins (MPs) participate actively in the intra- and intercellular movement of RNA plant viruses to such an extent that MP dysfunction impairs viral infection. However, the molecular mechanism(s) of their interaction with cognate nucleic acids are not well understood, partly due to the lack of structural information. In this work, a protein dissection approach was used to ...

The complete nucleotide sequence of carnation mottle genomic RNA (4003 nucleotides) is presented. The sequence was determined for cloned cDNA copies of viral RNA containing over 99% of the sequence and was completed by direct sequence analysis of RNA and cDNA transcripts. The sequence contains two long open reading frames which together can account for observed translation products. One transla...

carnation (dianthus caryophyllus) can be infected by several viruses that some are specific to carnation flowers. vegetative propagation of carnation, can easily disperse viruses by infectied cuttings. during the year 2007, viral-like symptoms were observed on carnation in mahallat greenhouses. 142 suspected samples from glass houses, with symptoms of reddish- purple flecks and spots on leaves,...

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 88, NO. 4, 25 FEBRUARY 2005 594 The nucleotide sequence data here have been submitted in the EMBL nucleotide database under the accession numbers AJ549954 (CP), AJ584842 (P7) and AJ584843 (P9). Sequences of designed primers AOSCarMVCPu and AOSCarMVCPd have been submitted to the EMBL database under accession number AJ566191 and AJ566192 respectively. *For correspondence. (e...

We present the modification of the outer protein shell of cowpea chlorotic mottle virus (CCMV) with linear and strained alkyne groups. These functionalized protein capsids constitute valuable platforms for post-functionalization via click chemistry. After modification, the integrity of the capsid and the reversible disassembly behavior are preserved.