Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Virus-mediated export of chromosomal DNA in plants

  • Marco Catoni,
  • Emanuela Noris,
  • Anna Maria Vaira,
  • Thomas Jonesman,
  • Slavica Matić,
  • Reihaneh Soleimani,
  • Seyed Ali Akbar Behjatnia,
  • Nestor Vinals,
  • Jerzy Paszkowski,
  • Gian Paolo Accotto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07775-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Viruses are potential vectors for horizontal gene transfer. Here, studying viral infection of sugar beet plants, the authors report the generation of virus-host circular DNA hybrids and provide a picture of the initial steps in virus-mediated horizontal transfer of chromosomal DNA between plant species.