Rescue of tomato yellow leaf curl virus mutants with heterologous iterons through in planta evolution
Khwannarin Khemsom, Ruifan Ren, Junping Han, Camila Perdoncini Carvalho, Eric Matthew Snider, Deyong Zhang, Feng Qu
This study shows that tomato yellow leaf curl virus mutants with heterologous iterons can be rescued by de novo mutations that enable viral escape from repression, suggesting iterons interact with host transcription factors and Rep in a competitive manner.
bioRxiv · May 27, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology