Virus-Induced Gene Silencing, a Post Transcriptional Gene Silencing Method

Table 1

Viruses used for silencing of genes and their hosts with targeted genes are listed.

Viruse/viruse type	Silencing host species	Group	Genes silenced	Natural host species	Reference
Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)/RNA virus	Nicotiana	Tobamovirus	pds	Tomato, squash, potato, tobacco
	benthamiana,				[11]
	nicotiana tabacum
Potato virus X (PVX)/RNA virus	Nicotiana	Potexvirus	pds	Potato, oilseed, rape
	benthamiana,				[21, 22]
	Arabidopsis
Tobacco rattle virus (TRV)/RNA virus	Nicotiana	Tobravirus	Rar1, EDS1, NPR1/NIM1 pds, rbcS,	Spinach, beet, potato, tobacco
	benthamiana, tomato,
	Arabidopsi, solanum species,				[14, 16, 23–25]
	chilli pepper, opium poppy,
	Aquilegia vulgaris
Barly stripe mosaic virus (BSMV) RNA virus	Barley	Hordeivirus	pds, Lr21, Rar1, Sgt1, Hsp90	Barley, wheat	[26, 27]
Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV)/RNA virus	Glycine max	Comovirus	pds	Phaseolus vulgaris,glycine max	[28]
Pea early browning virus (PEBV)/RNA viruse	Pisum sativu,	Tobravirus	pspds, uni, kor, pds	Pisum sativum,
	Medicago truncatula,			Phaseolus	[29, 30]
	Lathyrus odorata			vulgaris
Satellite tobaccomosaic virus (STMV)/Satellite virus	Nicotiana tabacum	RNA satellite virus	pds, rbcS, rbcL and various genes	Nicotiana glauca, pepper	[31]
Poplar mosaic virus (PopMV)/RNA virus	Poplar	Carlavirus	gfp	Nicotiana	[32]
				benthamiana
Brome mosaic virus (BMV)/RNA virus	Barley, rice, maize	Bromovirus	pds, actin 1, rubisco activase	Barley	[33]
Tobacco golden mosaic virus (TGMV)/DNA virus	Nicotiana	Begomovirus	su	Tomato	[34]
	benthamiana,
Tomato bushy shunt virus (TBSV)/RNA virus	Nicotiana	Tombusvirus	gfp	Lycopersicon esculentum	[35]
	benthamiana,
Cabbage leaf curl virus (CaLCuV)/DNA	Arabidopsis	Begomovirus	CH42, pds	Cabbage,
				broccoli,	[36]
				cauliflower
African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV)/DNA virus	Nicotiana	Begomovirus	pds, su, cyp79d2	Manihot esculenta
	benthamiana,				[37]
	Manihot esculenta
Tomato yellow leaf curl China Virus (TYLCV)/DNA virus	Nicotiana benthamiana,	DNAbeta satellite DNA	pcna, pds, su, gfp	Tomato
	Lycopersicon esculentum,				[38]
	N. glutinosa,
	N. tabacum