Virus-Induced NLR-Silencing Library-Based Screening to Identify Antiviral NLR Genes
摘要
Traditional genetic methods for identifying disease-resistant nucleotide binding and leucine-rich repeat-containing receptors (NLRs) proteins are often laborious and time-consuming. To streamline the screening process, we employed a pre-constructed combinatorial Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) library. This library targets 301 NbNLR genes by integrating specific fragments from 4 to 6 distinct NLRs into a single VIGS vector, generating 55 VIGS combination (VIGS-com). This chapter presents an efficient method based on tobacco rattle virus (TRV)-mediated VIGS for rapidly screening NLR genes that confer resistance to plant virus infection in Nicotiana benthamiana, using turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) as a case. This approach enables rapid and systematic screening of key disease-resistant NLR receptors in antiviral plant immunity.