Toward in planta studies of persistent fungal viruses in a model plant
Paul Telengech, Sakae Hisano, Francesco Favaretto, Hiroaki Ichikawa, Kazuyuki Maruyama, Kiwamu Hyodo, Hideki Kondo, Nobuhiro Suzuki · 2026
Read Toward in planta studies of persistent fungal viruses in a model plant by Paul Telengech, Sakae Hisano, Francesco Favaretto, Hiroaki Ichikawa, Kazuyuki Maruyama, Kiwamu Hyodo, Hideki Kondo, Nobuhiro Suzuki (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13276462.txt.
Description
Paul Telengech and co-authors describe a 2026 method for growing a fungal virus inside a model plant. Persistent viruses live quietly in plants and fungi, often without symptoms, which makes cause-and-effect studies hard. No reliable way existed to introduce a fungal virus into plant tissue for study.
The team inserted a fungal partitivirus, RnPV18, into cells of Nicotiana benthamiana, a standard laboratory plant. Callus tissue and liquid cell cultures grown from those cells kept the infection over long periods. Two lines carried the virus at different levels, and small RNA patterns shifted across growth stages. Mutations also appeared at particular sites, giving researchers a workable system for future experiments.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Paul Telengech, Sakae Hisano, Francesco Favaretto, Hiroaki Ichikawa, Kazuyuki Maruyama, Kiwamu Hyodo, Hideki Kondo, Nobuhiro Suzuki |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |