However, in such transgenic plants, coat protein gene should be constitutively expressed and may thus have effects on the Nutritional value of plants approach has been applied to a range of crops (tomato, alfalfa, tobacco, potato, melons, rice) for developing resistance against a broad spectrum of positive RNA strand plant viruses (e.g. alfalfa mosaic virus, potato virus X = PYX, potato virus Y = PVY and potato leaf roll virus).
Potatoes have been produced which have coat protein genes and are tolerant to both PYX and PVY. DNA coding for a component of TMV replicase enzyme, was also transferred to tobacco plants, conferring resistance to TMV.
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