John F. Bol

TL;DR: Tobacco plants were transformed with the mutant etr1-1 gene from Arabidopsis, conferring dominant ethylene insensitivity, but these transformants did not slow growth when contacting neighboring plants, hardly expressed defense-related basic pathogenesis-related proteins, and developed spontaneous stem browning.

TL;DR: Increased levels of resistance to TMV, comparable to resistance obtained by pre-infection with the virus, were found in UV-irradiated leaves but not in wounded or ethephon-treated leaves, which indicates that the basic PR proteins are not involved in resistance toTMV infection.

TL;DR: Tobacco is transformed with two bacterial genes coding for enzymes that convert chorismate into SA by a two-step process and the CSA plants showed a resistance to viral and fungal infection resembling SAR in nontransgenic plants.

TL;DR: The cDNA cloning of another mRNA whose synthesis is induced by TMV infection showed that the encoded protein is highly homologous to thaumatin, the intensely sweet-tasting protein from the fruits of the monocot Thaumatococcus daniellii Benth, a West African rainforest shrub.

TL;DR: Double-stranded cDNA of potato virus X (PVX) genomic RNA has been cloned and sequenced and revealed five open reading frames (ORFs) which encoded proteins of Mr 165588 (166K), 24622 (25K), 12324 (12K), 7595 (8K) and 25080 (coat protein), respectively.