GMODs and the Mosaic Virus

[Chaos' lil bro Order]

Main Question or Discussion Point

What roll does the mosaic virus play in GMOD food?

 

[chemisttree]

Tobacco mosaic virus is used to deliver genetic information to plants. I believe that the genetic information is in the form of a plasmid.

 

[Chaos' lil bro Order]

Tobacco mosaic virus is used to deliver genetic information to plants. I believe that the genetic information is in the form of a plasmid.

It is my understanding that the mosaic virus is used to turn 'on' genes that a GMODer wishes to express. How does this happen?

 

[Charion]

Tobacco mosaic virus is used to deliver genetic information to plants. I believe that the genetic information is in the form of a plasmid.

Ouch, viruses do not carry plasmids. You are confusing it with Agrobacterium tumefacies, an alpha-proteobacterium and its Ti-plasmid.
A virus itself is a vector. Certain areas of the viral (RNA-)genome can be replaced with other sequences with a variety of function. This may include, but not be limited to fluorescent proteins for visualization and tagging or to use it as siRNA to shut down protein expression.