Resistance to viruses
Transgenic sweet peppers harbouring a CMV satellite RNA
62 showed increased
resistance to viruses. Stable inheritance of the gene was observed in the progeny
and significant symptom attenuation of the offspring was confirmed upon
mechanical inoculation with CMV-Y or CMV-K or strains under greenhouse
conditions. However, feasibility of satellite RNA as a biocontrol of CMV in hot
peppers needs further field study experiments.
