Abstract:
To address the challenge of a single-dose, single-target vaccine being unable control multiple tobacco viral diseases simultaneously, we constructed six recombinant viruses that exhibit strong cross-protection effective, stably existence in
Nicotiana benthamiana and simultaneously resistance to CMV, TMV, PVY and TVBMV. These recombinant viruses all used the cucumber mosaic virus Fny (CMV
Fny) strain as the vaccine vector, with conserved combination fragments of TMV, PVY and TVBMV genomes inserted into the CMV
Fny RNA2 attenuated mutant in different permutations. The relative control efficacy of the six recombinant viruses exceeded 87% against CMV infecting alone, ranging from 22.2% to 46.2% against single infections of the other three viruses, and from 16% to 37% against mixed infections of all four viruses. This study provides vaccine candidates for controlling tobacco virus diseases and enriches the practice of creating attenuated plant virus vaccines.