期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1976
卷号：73
期号：7
页码：2453-2457
DOI：10.1073/pnas.73.7.2453
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Molecular hybridization experiments of 125I-labeled potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV) with DNA from uninfected or PSTV-infected tomato plants showed that infrequent DNA sequences complementary to PSTV exist in both uninfected and infected cells. DNA titration experiments revealed that at least 60% of PSTV is represented by sequences in DNA of several normal solanaceous host species. Phylogenetically diverse plants contain sequences related to less of the PSTV. PSTV-infected tomato or Gynura aurantiaca plants did not possess new PSTV sequences at detectable levels. These results support the hypothesis that PSTV may have originated from genes in normal solanaceous plants.
