Engineered RNA-Mediated Resistance to Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Is Sequence Specific. Marcel Prins. Department of Virology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Binnenhaven 11, 6709 PD Wageningen. Renato de Oliveira Resende (1), Corine Anker (1), Alie van Schepen(2), Peter de Haan (2), and Rob Goldbach (1). (1) Department of Virology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Binnenhaven 11, 6709 PD Wageningen; and (2) S&G Seeds, Division of Technology, Westeinde 62, P.O. Box 26, 1600 AA Enkhuizen, The Netherlands. MPMI 9:416-418. Accepted 22 March 1996. Copyright 1996 The American Phytopathological Society.

Transgenic plants were produced that expressed a wide range of randomly chosen sequences of the tripartite tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) RNA genome or its complement. Testing the progenies of these plants revealed that only transgenic expression of N or NS_M gene sequences resulted in resistance to TSWV.