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GMODs and the Mosaic Virus

  1. Apr 29, 2008 #1

    Chaos' lil bro Order

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    What roll does the mosaic virus play in GMOD food?
     
    Chaos' lil bro Order, Apr 29, 2008
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  3. May 2, 2008 #2

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    Tobacco mosaic virus is used to deliver genetic information to plants. I believe that the genetic information is in the form of a plasmid.
     
    chemisttree, May 2, 2008
  4. May 2, 2008 #3

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    It is my understanding that the mosaic virus is used to turn 'on' genes that a GMODer wishes to express. How does this happen?
     
    Chaos' lil bro Order, May 2, 2008
  5. May 5, 2008 #4

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    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.
     
    Charion, May 5, 2008
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