Name: Potato Virus X-Based microRNA Silencing (VbMS) In Potato. (Video) | JoVE Journal
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Description: Learn virus-based microRNA silencing in potato using PVX vectors for rapid functional characterization. This method enables efficient miRNA analysis without stable transformation in diploid and tetraploid species.

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We thank Dr. Yule Liu from Tsinghua University for providing the PVX-LIC vector. This work was supported by a start-up fund from the Texas A&#38;M AgriLife Research and the Hatch Project TEX0-1-9675 from USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to JS.

1. Grow Potato Plants.
<ol>
	<li>Propagate in vitro potato plants in culture tubes (25 x 150 mm) with Murashige and Skoog (MS) media plus&#160;Gamborg&#8217;s vitamin (MS basal salt mixture, Gamborg&#8217;s vitamin, 30 g/L sucrose, 3.5 g/L agar, pH = 5.7). Place the tubes in the growth room under 20&#8211;22 &#176;C, 16 h light/8 h dark photoperiod, and light intensity 120 &#181;mol/m2&#8729;s1. 
	NOTE: New shoots and roots normally develop in 1&#8211;2 weeks from plants. Propagate plants with fresh MS/Gamborg&#8217;s vitamin media every month.</li>
	<li>Four weeks later, transplant in vitro plants into soil and grow them in a greenhouse under 20&#8211;22 &#176;C, 16 h light/8 h dark photoperiod, and light intensity 120 &#181;mol/m2&#8729;s1. 
	NOTE: The plants with newly developed roots and leaves are suitable for transplanting. Maintain moisture for the freshly transplanted plants for the first 3&#8211;4 days.</li>
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2. Construct the VbMS vectors.
<ol>
	<li>Design and clone the short tandem TM molecules (STTM, Figure 1)22,53 for the miRNA of interest. 
	NOTE: Acquire miRNA sequences based on experimental data or from the miRbase database54,55,56,57,58,59. The miR166 sequence used in this study has been described previously60.
	<ol>
		<li>Design the TM module by inserting a mismatch sequence, normally 5&#8217;-CTA-3&#8217;, into the reverse complement sequence of miRNA at the site corresponding to the 10th&#8211;11th nucleotides of the miRNA. 
		NOTE: For example, the Stu-miR160 sequence is 5&#8217;-UGCCUGGCUCCCUGUAUGCC-3&#8217;61, where the 10th&#8211;11th nucleotides is in bold. The reverse complement sequence (in deoxynucleotides) is 5&#8217;-GGCATACAGGGAGCCAGGCA-3&#8217; and the mismatch bulge insertion site is shown in bold. The TM molecule sequence (deoxynucleotide) should be 5&#8217;-GGCATACAGG-CTA-GAGCCAGGCA-3&#8217;.</li>
		<li>Design primers for cloning the STTM fragment (Figure 1). Use DNA oligonucleotides with the 48-nt spacer sequence as template for PCR cloning. The forward primer consists of a LIC1 linker (5&#8217;-CgACgACAAgACCgT-3&#8217;), the forward sequence of the above designed for TM molecule, and the partial 5&#8217; sequence of the 48-nt spacer (5&#8217;-GTTGTTGTTGTTATGGT-3&#8217;). The reverse primer consists of a LIC2 linker (5&#8217;-gAggAgAagAgCCgT-3&#8217;), the reverse complement sequence of the TM molecule, and a partial reverse complement to the 3&#8217; sequence of the 48-nt spacer (5&#8217;-ATTCTTCTTCTTTAGACCAT-3&#8217;). 
		NOTE: The 48-nt spacer sequence is 5&#8217;-GTTGTTGTTGTTATGGTCTAATTTAAATATGGTCTAAAGAAGAAGAAT-3&#8217;. For example, for STTM-miR160, the forward primer should be 5&#8217;-CgACgACAAgACCgT-GGCATACAGG-CTA-GAGCCAGGCA-GTTGTTGTTGTTATGGT-3&#8217;; the reverse primer should be 5&#8217;-gAggAgAagAgCCgT-TGCCTGGCTC-TAG-CCTGTATGCC-ATTCTTCTTCTTTAGACCAT-3&#8217; (Figure 1).</li>
		<li>Amplify the STTM fragment in a volume of 50 &#181;L by PCR using the synthesized universal 48-nt spacer as the template and a high fidelity DNA polymerase.
		<ol>
			<li>Set up the PCR reaction by mixing 0.5 &#181;L of each primer (40 &#181;M), 0.5 &#181;L of 48-nt spacer oligo (40 &#181;M), 5 &#181;L of 10x PCR buffer, 1 &#181;L of dNTP mixture (10 mM each), 0.1 &#181;L of high fidelity DNA polymerase (10 U/&#181;L ), and 43 &#181;L of ddH2O to a total volume of 50 &#181;L. Perform standard PCR amplification as follows: 94 &#176;C for 3 min, 32 cycles of 94 &#176;C for 45 s, 60 &#176;C for 45 s and 72 &#176;C for 60 s.</li>
		</ol>
		</li>
		<li>Purify the STTM fragment by ethanol precipitation. Add 2.5 volumes of ethanol and 1/10 volume of 3 M sodium acetate (pH = 4.0) to the PCR products. Mix vigorously and centrifuge at 14,000 x g for 10 min. Remove the supernatant and rinse the pellet with 1 mL of 70% ethanol. Dry the pellet and dissolve it in 20 &#181;L of ddH2O. 
		NOTE: Use DNA electrophoresis to check the amplification of the STTM PCR products.</li>
		<li>Set up the T4 DNA polymerase reaction on ice by mixing 2.5 &#181;L of purified STTM PCR product, 0.5 &#181;L of 10x T4 DNA polymerase buffer, 0.05 &#181;L of 1 M dithiothreitol (DTT), 0.25 &#181;L of 100 mM dATP, 0.1 &#181;L of T4 DNA polymerase (3 U/&#181;L), and 1.6 &#181;L of ddH2O to a total volume of 5 &#181;L. Incubate the mixture at 37 &#176;C for 15 min, and treat the products at 75 &#176;C for 20 min to inactivate the T4 DNA polymerase.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Prepare the PVX-based VbMS construct.
	<ol>
		<li>Digest 5 &#956;g of PVX-LIC plasmid38 with 2.5 &#181;L of SmaI (20 U/&#181;L) in a volume of 100 &#181;L.</li>
		<li>Add an equal volume of phenol:chloroform:isopropanol (25:24:1, pH = 6.7/8.0) to the digested PVX-LIC products and mix vigorously. Centrifuge at 14,000 x g for 10 min and transfer the supernatant to a new centrifuge tube. Add an equal volume of chloroform:isopropanol (24:1) and vortex vigorously. Centrifuge at 14,000 x g for 10 min. 
		NOTE: The PVX-LIC vector harbors the LIC cassette for cloning. The LIC cassette of PVX-LIC vector contains a ccdB gene and a chloramphenicol-resistant gene and needs to be maintained/propagated in the E. coli strain DB3.1 using LB medium containing kanamycin (50 &#956;g/L) and chloramphenicol (15 &#956;g/L).</li>
		<li>Transfer the supernatant to a new centrifuge tube. Add 2.5 volumes of ethanol and 1/10 volume of 3 M sodium acetate (pH = 4.0) and mix vigorously. Centrifuge at 14,000 x g for 10 min and remove the supernatant.</li>
		<li>Rinse the pellet with 1 mL of 70% ethanol and vortex vigorously. Centrifuge at 14,000 x g for 10 min and remove the supernatant. Dry the pellet and dissolve the digested PVX-LIC plasmid with 100 &#181;L of ddH2O.</li>
		<li>Set up the T4 DNA polymerase reaction on ice by mixing 2.5 &#181;L of digested PVX-LIC vector DNA, 0.5 &#181;L of 10x T4 DNA polymerase buffer, 0.05 &#181;L of 1 M DTT, 0.25 &#181;L of 100 mM dTTP, and 0.1 &#181;L of T4 DNA polymerase (3 U/&#181;L) in a total volume of 5 &#181;L. Incubate the mixture at 37 &#176;C for 15 min and treat the products at 75&#8201;&#176;C for 20 min to inactivate the T4 DNA polymerase.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Clone the STTM sequence into the PVX-LIC vector using a LIC reaction. Mix the T4 DNA polymerase-treated STTM PCR products (5 &#181;L) and the T4 DNA polymerase-treated PVX-LIC plasmids (5 &#181;L). Incubate at 70 &#176;C for 5&#8201;min, cool down to 22 &#176;C at a ramp of 0.1 &#176;C/s, and keep at 22 &#176;C for 30 min using a PCR machine. 
	NOTE: Extend the incubation time to overnight at 4 &#176;C to achieve higher efficiency of LIC cloning.</li>
	<li>Transform 5 &#181;L of the LIC reaction products into the E. coli DH5&#945; and grow on an LB plate containing 50 &#956;g/mL kanamycin62,63. Pick and verify positive colonies by PCR with the cloning primers and universal primer for the PVX-LIC vector followed by&#160;sequencing.
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		<li>Perform colony PCR with the forward primer for PVX-LIC (5&#8217;-GTGTTGGCTTGCAAACTAGAT-3&#8217;) in combination with the reverse primer for STTM cloning to identify positive clones. The size of the PCR band should be ~300 bp. 
		NOTE: Verify the sequences of STTM fragments by terminator cycle sequencing64,65.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Isolate the PVX-STTM plasmids from the validated clones and transform them into Agrobacterium strains GV3101, GV2260, or EHA10562,63. Verify Agrobacterium colonies by PCR. 
	NOTE: Confirm Agrobacterium colonies by PCR using the forward primer for PVX-LIC and the reverse primer for STTM cloning.</li>
</ol>
3. Perform PVX-based VbMS assay in potato plants.
<ol>
	<li>Transplant 4-week-old in vitro potato plants into soil. The transplanted plants will be subjected to VbMS assay 3&#8211;4 days later.</li>
	<li>Inoculate potato plants with Agrobacterium containing the PVX-STTM plasmids. 
	NOTE: For the VbMS assay in potato, Agrobacterium-mediated infiltration and toothpick-scratching inoculation are performed simultaneously.
	<ol>
		<li>Pick and inoculate positive transformants containing PVX-STTM vectors into 50 mL of liquid LB containing 50 &#956;g/mL kanamycin and 50 &#956;g/mL rifampicin. Grow in a 28 &#176;C incubator at 220 rpm for 16 h until OD600 = 1.0.</li>
		<li>At the same time, streak the positive Agrobacterium colonies onto at least two new LB plates containing 50 &#956;g/mL kanamycin and 50 &#956;g/mL rifampicin and grow at 28 &#176;C for 1 day. Include the PVX-LIC38,66 vector as a control and PVX-GFP67,68 to monitor virus spread.</li>
		<li>Collect the Agrobacterium liquid culture by centrifugation at 3,400 x g for 10 min at room temperature. Resuspend Agrobacterium cells with an equal volume of infiltration buffer (10 mM MgCl2, 10 mM MES, and 200 &#181;M acetosyringone, pH = 5.6) and adjust to OD600 = 1.0. Incubate at room temperature for 6 h.</li>
		<li>Infiltrate the Agrobacterium culture into the abaxial side of fully expanded leaves with a 1 mL needleless syringe.
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			<li>Flip and hold a leaf with one hand, then use one finger to support the leaf lamina from the adaxial side at the infiltration site. Keep the syringe vertical to the leaf surface with the other hand and infiltrate the Agrobacterium culture into the abaxial side of lamina.</li>
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		</li>
		<li>Scrape the Agrobacterium culture from the LB plates and scratch the stem surface of the first one or two internodes of the infiltrated potato plants with a toothpick. Gently scratch the epidermis of the stem. Avoid piercing through the stem, which may cause severe damage to the plants.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Grow the infiltrated plants at 22 &#176;C with a 16 h light/8 h dark photoperiod and light intensity of 120 &#956;mol/m2&#8729; s1 in a greenhouse. 
	NOTE: Phenotypes caused by miRNA silencing usually appear in 2&#8211;4 weeks postinoculation (Figure 2, Figure 3). It typically takes 10&#8211;20 days for the VbMS phenotype to appear after infiltration. The VbMS phenotype depends on the properties of the specific miRNA and target genes, growth conditions, and potato varieties.</li>
</ol>
4. Perform expression analysis.
<ol>
	<li>When phenotypes appear at 2&#8211;4 weeks postinoculation, collect tissues such as shoots, leaves, flowers, or roots with phenotypes from the VbMS plants and tissues from the control plants with scissors. Isolate total RNAs from the collected tissues.</li>
	<li>Check the RNA quality by electrophoresis62,63 and quantify the RNA concentration by measuring the OD260 absorbance with a spectrophotometer.</li>
	<li>Use stem-loop real-time reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) to analyze the miRNA expression.
	<ol>
		<li>For specific miRNAs, design a stem-loop reverse transcription primer. Stem-loop RT primers contain a universal 5&#8217; backbone and a 3&#8217; 6-nt extension of a specific miRNA. Design a 5&#8217; universal backbone (5&#8217;- GTCTCCTCTGGTGCagggtccgaggtattcGCACCAGAGGAGAC-3&#8217;) that forms a stem-loop structure. (The upper case corresponds to an inverse-repeated sequence and the lower case to the loop region).</li>
		<li>Part of the 5&#8217; backbone sequence that forms a loop serves as the reverse primer for subsequent PCR amplification (bold-italic sequence in the backbone sequence). Add a 6-nt extension sequence that is reverse-complementary to the 3&#8217; end of the miRNA of interest to the stem-loop primer to provide specificity for reverse transcription (Supplemental Figure 1A). 
		NOTE: Design the stem-loop reverse transcription primer as described by Chen et al.69 and Erika Varkonyi-Gasic et al.70,71,72. For example, the stem-loop reverse transcription primer for Stu-miR160 is designed as 5&#8217;-GTCTCCTCTGGTGCagggtccgaggtattcGCACCAGAGGAGACGGCATA-3&#8217;. The stem-loop reverse transcription primer for the potato miR165/166 family is designed as 5&#8217;-GTCTCCTCTGGTGCagggtccgaggtattcGCACCAGAGGAGACGGGG(A/G)A-3&#8217;. (The bold uppercase sequences provide the specificity of reverse transcription for specific miRNAs).</li>
		<li>Set up the reverse transcription reaction by mixing 50&#8211;200 ng of total RNA, 1 &#181;L of the stem-loop reverse transcription primer (100 &#956;M), 2 &#181;L of 10x buffer, 0.2 &#181;L of RNase inhibitor (40 U/&#181;L), 0.25 &#181;L of dNTPs (10 mM each), and 1 &#181;L of reverse transcriptase (200 U/&#181;L) on ice. Add nuclease-free ddH2O to a total volume of 20 &#181;L.</li>
		<li>Perform reverse transcription using the pulsed reverse transcription procedure. Incubate the reverse transcription reaction mixture at 16 &#176;C for 30 min, perform a temperature cycle of 30 &#176;C for 30 s, 42 &#176;C for 30 s and 50 &#176;C for 1 s, for a total of 60 cycles, and inactivate the reverse transcriptase by incubation at 85 &#176;C for 5 min.</li>
		<li>For real-time PCR analysis of miRNA expression, design the forward primer based on the miRNA sequence but do not include sequences that overlap with the above designed stem-loop reverse transcription primer. Add a 3&#8211;7-nt extension to the 5&#8217; of the forward primer to optimize the length, melting temperature, and GC content (Supplemental Figure 1). 
		NOTE: The universal reverse primer is 5&#8217;-GTGCAGGGTCCGAGGT-3&#8217;. For example, the stem-loop reverse transcription primer for Stu-miR160 is designed as 5&#8217;-CGGCTGCCTGGCTCC-3&#8217;. The stem-loop reverse transcription primer for miR165/166 family is 5&#8217;-CGGCTCGGACCAGGCTT-3&#8217;. The bold sequences serve as 5&#8217; extensions for primer optimization. The stem-loop reverse transcription primers and the real-time PCR primers for miRNA can be designed using the miRNA Primer Design Tool73.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Synthesize cDNAs of the target mRNAs by standard reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR). Incubate the reverse transcription reaction mixture at 37 &#176;C for 60 min and inactivate the reverse transcriptase by heating to 85 &#176;C for 5 min. 
	NOTE: (1) Predict target mRNAs using the psRNATarget program74 if the target mRNAs are not known. (2) The universal reverse transcription primer for mRNA is an anchored primer 5&#8217;-TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTVN-3&#8217;.</li>
	<li>Set up the real-time PCR reaction for both&#160;miRNA of interest and the target mRNAs. Mix 0.5 &#181;L of template cDNA, 5 &#181;L of 2x real-time PCR buffer with SYBR green, 0.05 &#181;L of each forward and reverse primer (40 &#181;M), and 4.4 &#181;L of ddH2O in a total volume of 5 &#181;L on ice.</li>
	<li>Incubate at 95 &#176;C for 3 min, 40 cycles of 95 &#176;C for 3 s and 60 &#176;C for 30 s. Perform a subsequent melting curve analysis as follows: Incubate at 95 &#176;C for 15 s, cool down to 60 &#176;C at a ramp of 20 &#176;C/s, keep at 60 &#176;C for 60 s, heat to 95 &#176;C at a ramp of 0.2 &#176;C/s, and keep at 95 &#176;C for 15 s. Analyze the Ct-values using the &#916;&#916;Ct methods76,77 and plot the means with standard errors. 
	NOTE: (1) The real-time PCR primers for target mRNAs can be designed as described75. (2) Potato polyubiquitin 10 gene can serve as an internal control for normalization in potato. The forward primer for the potato polyubiquitin 10 gene is 5&#8217;-ATGTTGCCTTTCTTATGTGTGGTTG-3&#8217; and the reverse primer 5&#8217;-TTATTTATTCACATAAACGACAGTTCAACC-3&#8217;. (3) For real-time PCR analysis, contamination and primer-dimer formation may generate false positive results. To monitor nonspecific amplification and increase the liability of real-time PCR analysis, it is recommended to include controls without template and reverse transcriptase for real-time PCR assays.</li>
</ol>

We present a PVX-based miRNA silencing system to characterize the function of endogenous miRNAs in potato by integrating the STTM design into the PVX vector. The VbMS system proved to be effective in silencing miRNA165/166 in potato, a highly conserved miRNA family across plant species.
The TM approach has been developed to interfere with the expression of miRNAs based on an artificial miRNA target mimic that is designed to create a mismatch loop at the expected cleavage site within the miRNA ...

Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) are characterized as 20&#8211;24 nucleotide-long, nuclear-encoded regulatory RNAs1 and play fundamental roles in almost every aspect of plant biological processes, including growth and development2,3, photosynthesis and metabolism4,5,6,7, hormone synthesis and signaling8,9, biotic and abiotic responses10,11,12,13, and nutrient and energy regulation14,15. The regulatory roles of plant miRNAs are well-programmed and fulfilled typically at post-transcriptional levels by either cleaving or translationally repressing the target mRNAs.
Tremendous progress has been made towards&#160;identification, transcriptional profiling, and target prediction of miRNAs in potato16,17,18,19,20,21. However, the functional characterization of miRNAs in plants, including potato, has lagged behind other organisms due to the lack of efficient and high-throughput genetic approaches. It is challenging to perform functional analysis of individual miRNA by standard loss-of function analysis, because most miRNAs belong to families with considerable genetic redundancy22. In addition, a single miRNA can control multiple target genes23 and several different miRNAs can modulate the same molecular pathway collaboratively24,25. These properties make it difficult to characterize the function of a specific miRNA or a miRNA family.
Much of the functional analysis of miRNAs has relied heavily on gain-of-function approaches that have obvious limitations. The artificial miRNA (amiRNA) method exploits the endogenous primary transcripts (pri-miRNAs) to produce miRNAs at a high level, leading to inhibition of target gene expression26,27,28,29. However, activation tagging and miRNA overexpression using a strong constitutive 35S promoter often lead to heightened expression of miRNAs that are not representative of in vivo conditions and therefore may not reflect the endogenous function of miRNAs30. An alternative approach has been developed involving expression of miRNA-resistant forms of target genes that contain uncleavable mutations in the binding and/or cleavage sites31,32,33. But this approach can also potentially cause misinterpretation of the phenotype derived from the miRNA-resistant target transgene due to transgenic artifacts. Therefore, conclusions from these gain-of-function studies should be drawn with caution34. Another major limitation of the above-described approaches is that they require transformation, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Furthermore, the transgene-dependent approaches are hardly applicable for transform-recalcitrant plant species. Therefore, it is essential to develop a fast and efficient loss-of-function approach to unravel the function&#160;of miRNAs.
To bypass the prerequisite of the transformation procedure, virus-based microRNA silencing (VbMS) has been established by combining the target mimic (TM) strategies with virus-derived vectors. In the VbMS system, artificially designed TM molecules are transiently expressed from a virus backbone, offering a powerful, high-throughput, and time-saving tool to dissect the function of plant endogenous miRNAs35,36. VbMS was initially developed in N. benthamiana and tomato with the tobacco rattle virus (TRV)35,36,37 and has been extended to Arabidopsis, cotton, wheat, and maize using various other virus expression systems, including potato virus X (PVX)38, cotton leaf crumple virus (ClCrV)39, cucumber mosaic virus (CMV)40,41,42, Chinese wheat mosaic virus (CWMV)43, and barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV)44,45.
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the fourth most important food crop and the most widely grown noncereal crop in the world primarily because of its high nutritional value, high energy production, and relatively low input requirements46. Several features of potato make it an attractive dicotyledonous model plant. It is a vegetatively propagated polyploid crop with high outcrossing rate, heterozygosity, and genetic diversity. However, to date, there is no report characterizing the function of miRNAs in potato using VbMS. Here, we present a ligation-independent cloning (LIC)-adapted potato PVX-based VbMS approach to evaluate the function of miRNAs in potato plants38. We selected the miR165/166 family to illustrate the VbMS assay because the miR165/166 family and their target mRNAs and Class III homeodomain/Leu zipper (HD-ZIP III) transcription factors have been extensively characterized22,47,48. The HD-ZIP III genes are key regulators of meristem development and organ polarity, and suppression of miR165/166 function leads to increased expression of the HD-ZIP III genes, resulting in pleotropic developmental defects such as reduced apical dominance and aberrant patterns of leaf polarity22,35,38,41. The readily scorable developmental phenotypes correlated with silencing of miRNA165/166 enable accurate evaluation of the effectiveness of the PVX-based VbMS assay.
In this study, we demonstrate that the PVX-based VbMS system can effectively block the function of miRNAs in potato. Because the PVX-based virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) system has been established in a number of potato varieties49,50,51,52, this PVX-based VbMS approach can be likely applied to a broad range of diploid and tetraploid potato species.

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potato virus x-based microrna silencing (vbms) in potato.

Potato Virus X-Based microRNA Silencing (VbMS) In Potato.

Virus-based microRNA silencing (VbMS) is a rapid and efficient tool for functional characterization of microRNAs (miRNAs) in plants. The VbMS system has been developed and applied for various plant species including Nicotiana benthamiana, tomato, Arabidopsis, cotton, and monocot plants such as wheat and maize. Here, we describe a detailed protocol using PVX-based VbMS vectors to silence endogenous miRNAs in potato. To knock down the expression of a specific miRNA, target mimic (TM) molecules of miRNA of interest are designed, integrated into plant virus vectors, and expressed in potato by Agrobacterium infiltration to bind directly to the endogenous miRNA of interest and block its function.

Figure 2 shows the PVX-STTM165/166 potato plants (Katahdin) with ectopic growth of leaf tissues from the abaxial side of leaf lamina along the veins. More severe phenotypes such as trumpet-shaped leaf formation have also been observed. In contrast, no phenotypic abnormality was observed in the PVX control plants. These results show that the VbMS system was effective in suppressing endogenous miRNA function in tetraploid potato plants and the PVX-VbMS system was a robust genetic tool to deter...

We present a detailed protocol for potato virus X (PVX)-based microRNA silencing (VbMS) system to functionally characterize endogenous microRNAs (miRNAs) in potato. Target mimic (TM) molecules of miRNA of interest are integrated into the PVX vector and transiently expressed in potato to silence the target miRNA or miRNA family.

Virus-based microRNA silencing (VbMS) is a rapid and efficient tool for functional characterization of microRNAs (miRNAs) in plants. The VbMS system has ...

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Learn virus-based microRNA silencing in potato using PVX vectors for rapid functional characterization. This method enables efficient miRNA analysis without stable transformation in diploid and tetraploid species.

Potato Virus X-Based microRNA Silencing (VbMS) In Potato.

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