Nuclear DNA from uninfected or potato spindle tuber viroid-infected tomato plants contains no detectable sequences complementary to cloned double-stranded viroid cDNA.
- 1 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 78 (11), 6932-6935
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.78.11.6932
Abstract
High MW tomato nuclear DNA was isolated from uninfected and potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV)-infected tomato leaves. Restriction digests were fractionated on agarose gels, denatured and transferred to diazobenzyloxymethyl-paper and hybridized to 32P-labeled cloned double-stranded PSTV c[complementary]DNA. No hybridization to DNA from either uninfected or infected tissue could be detected under conditions that permitted detection of cloned double-stranded PSTV cDNA at a concentration equivalent to 0.2 copy of PSTV-related DNA/haploid tomato genome. Hybridization of tomato DNA to 32P-labeled cloned soybean 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequences showed that the restricted nuclear DNA was suitable for hybridization to probes containing homologus sequences. These results indicate that neither PSTV nor its complementary strand is transcribed from nuclear DNA but do not rule out the possibility of sequence homology between host DNA and a small portion of PSTV or its complement.Keywords
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