Fig. 3

Cross protection of tomato plants with the E1001A against the challenge inoculation with PVX. a Tomato cv Micro-Tom plants pre- inoculated with empty vector pCAMBIA0390 (control) and E1001A, respectively, were challenged with PVX at 10 dpai. The symptoms were photographed at 15 days after the challenging inoculation. b Virus accumulation in the systemically infected tomato leaves were determined by Western blotting using antiserum against PVX CP at 15 days after the challenging inoculation. Total proteins were used as loading control