Immune Response of Lycopersicon esculentum against the Tomato mosaic virus
Mendoza-Figueroa María Saraí *
Departamento de Atención a la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 04960, Mexico City, México.
Torres-López Elisa Yoalli
Departamento de Atención a la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 04960, Mexico City, México.
García-Cardoso Karina Yunuen
Departamento de Atención a la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 04960, Mexico City, México.
Solanes-Herrera Valeria
Departamento de Atención a la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 04960, Mexico City, México.
Gómez-Ulloa Milos Davi
Departamento de Atención a la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 04960, Mexico City, México.
Mendoza-Figueroa José Silvestre
Departamento de Química de Biomacromoléculas, Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Mexico City, México.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The tomato plant (Lycopersicon esculentum) is a crop rich in nutriments but is susceptible to infection such as mosaic caused by the Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV). In this review it will be described some mechanisms that L. esculentum have developed to overcome the infection amongst ToMV such as the Hypersensitive Response in which participate the resistance proteins Tm-1, Tm-2, and Tm-22, as well as the Antiviral RNA Silencing. Some insights for ToMV control are discussed.
Keywords: ToMV, mosaic, R proteins, antiviral RNA silencing