GENE ENCODING PLANT PROTEIN TM2A, CONFERRING RESISTANCE TO TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS

摘要

The invention relates to a nucleic acid and the encoded plant resistance protein which upon tobamovirus infection interacts with the 30k tobamovirus movement protein to protect the plant against the spread of the infection. Simultaneous expression of the resistance protein and a 30K movement protein , wherein expression of at least one of them is controlled by a pathogen- inducible promoter, can be used in a general method of protecting plants fro m the spread of a pathogen infection.