Browsing Bethlehem University Faculty Research by Author "Akad, Fouad"
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Making a friend from a foe: expressing a GroEL gene from the whitefly Bemisia tabaci in the phloem of tomato plants confers resistance to tomato yellow leaf curl virus
Darissa, Omar; Akad, Fouad; Iraki, Naim (Archives of Virology, 2007-03-05)Some (perhaps all) plant viruses transmitted in a circulative manner by their insect vectors avoid destruction in the haemolymph by interacting with GroEL homologues, ensuring transmission. We have previously shown that ...