Naturally occurring substitution of an amino acid in a plant virus gene-silencing suppressor enhances viral adaptation to increasing thermal stress

• Lina Cai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lina Cai, Mingqing Dang

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Mingqing Dang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lina Cai, Mingqing Dang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Yawen Yang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Ruoxin Mei,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Fan Li,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China

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• Xiaorong Tao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Peter Palukaitis,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Horticultural Sciences, Seoul Women’s University, Nowon-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Randy Beckett,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• W. Allen Miller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Stewart M. Gray ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: smg3@cornell.edu (SMG); xuyiqdpd@njau.edu.cn (YX)

  Affiliations Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrated Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Unit, USDA, ARS, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8402-1962

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• Yi Xu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: smg3@cornell.edu (SMG); xuyiqdpd@njau.edu.cn (YX)

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu Province, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1913-4530

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