[Ching-Hsiu Tsai] Autophagy is involved in assisting the replication of Bamboo mosaic virus in Nicotiana benthamiana
Huang, Y-P, Huang, Y-W, Hsiao, Y-J, Li, S-C, Hsu, Y-H, and Tsai, C-H. 2019 Journal of Experimental Botany
In the study of the relationship between autophagy and BaMV replication, we accidentally uncovered that autophagy did not play a defensive role but in assisting BaMV replication. That is the first case reported among plant viruses.
Article source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6760330/pdf/erz244.pdf