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THE physiology of virus-infected plant tissues is of interest in that an understanding of the processes underlying the development of disease symptoms is dependent on a knowledge of changes in the host tissue metabolism induced by virus-infection. An approach to this problem is a consideration of nucleotide-levels in tissues infected by virus. The formation of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) may give lower nucleotide-levels in the host tissue as a result of the utilization of nucleotides in virus–ribonucleic acid synthesis. This is of particular significance with regard to the adenosine nucleotides, adenosine diphosphate (ADP), adenosine triphosphate (ATP), nicotinamide-adenine di-nucleotide (NAD) and nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP), all of which are concerned in the regulation of the intermediary metabolism of the host-tissue1.
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SUNDERLAND, D., MERRETT, M. Nicotinamide-adenine Dinucleotides, Adenosine Diphosphate and Adenosine Triphosphate Content of Tissues infected by Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Nature 199, 1116–1117 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1991116a0
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