University of Kentucky UKnowledge University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2011 COMPARISON OF PLANT‐ADAPTED RHABDOVIRUS PROTEIN LOCALIZATION AND INTERACTIONS Kathleen Marie Martin University of Kentucky,
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[email protected]. ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION Kathleen Marie Martin The Graduate School University of Kentucky 2011 COMPARISON OF PLANT‐ADAPTED RHABDOVIRUS PROTEIN LOCALIZATION AND INTERACTIONS ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the College of Agriculture at the University of Kentucky By Kathleen Marie Martin Lexington, Kentucky Director: Dr. Michael M Goodin, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology Lexington, Kentucky 2011 Copyright © Kathleen Marie Martin 2011 ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION COMPARISON OF PLANT‐ADAPTED RHABDOVIRUS PROTEIN LOCALIZATION AND INTERACTIONS Sonchus yellow net virus (SYNV), Potato yellow dwarf virus (PYDV) and Lettuce Necrotic yellows virus (LNYV) are members of the Rhabdoviridae family that infect plants. SYNV and PYDV are Nucleorhabdoviruses that replicate in the nuclei of infected cells and LNYV is a Cytorhabdovirus that replicates in the cytoplasm. LNYV and SYNV share a similar genome organization with a gene order of Nucleoprotein (N), Phosphoprotein (P), putative movement protein (Mv), Matrix protein (M), Glycoprotein (G) and Polymerase protein (L).