Suppression of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 6 in tomatoes allows potato spindle tuber viroid to invade basal part but not apical part including pluripotent stem cells of shoot apical meristem

• Takashi Naoi,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Syoya Kitabayashi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan

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• Atsushi Kasai,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan

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• Kohei Sugawara,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan

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• Charith Raj Adkar-Purushothama,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Département de Biochimie, Faculté de Médecine des Sciences de la Santé, Pavillon de Recherche Appliquée au Cancer, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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• Mineo Senda,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan

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• Tatsuji Hataya ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hataya@res.agr.hokudai.ac.jp (TH); sano@hirosaki-u.ac.jp (TS)

  Affiliations Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Teruo Sano

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hataya@res.agr.hokudai.ac.jp (TH); sano@hirosaki-u.ac.jp (TS)

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan

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