Table 3.

Competition experiment in Nicotiana benthamiana with various reassortants of Fny- and LS-CMV and with viruses containing deleted or exchanged 2b

Inoculum	Plant	No. of clones of indicated reassortant/no. of clones identifieda at:
		7 dpi		15 dpi		21 dpi
		F3 or L3	h	F3 or L3	h	F3 or L3	h
L1L2L3 + h	1	NIb	NI	NI	NI	NI	NI
	2	−c	−	6/9	3/9	10/10	0/10
L1F2L3 + h	1	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
	2	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
F1F2L3 + h	1	0/9	9/9	0/9	9/9	0/10	10/10
	2	0/10	10/10	0/8	8/8	0/9	9/9
F1F2F3 + h	1	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10
	2	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10
F1L2F3 + h	1	8/8	0/8	10/10	0/10	2/9	7/9
	2	NI	NI	NI	NI	NI	NI
F1L2L3 + h	1	NI	NI	NI	NI	NI	NI
	2	9/10	1/10	0/8	8/8	2/6	4/6
L1F2F3 + h	1	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
	2	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
L1F2F3L3 + h	1	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
	2	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
F1F2L3F3 + h	1	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
	2	10/10d	0/10	10/10d	0/10	10/10d	0/10
L1F2aL2bL3 + h	1	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
	2	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
L1F2aFΔ2bL3 + h	1	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
	2	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
L1L2aLΔ2bL3 + h	1	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
	2	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
F1F2aL2bL3 + h	1	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
	2	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10
F1F2aFΔ2bL3 + h	1	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
	2	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10
F1F2aL2bF3 + h	1	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10
	2	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10
F1F2aFΔ2bF3 + h	1	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10
	2	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10	0/10	10/10

^aThe “winner” is highlighted in grey.

^bNI, not infected.

^c−, the RT-PCR is negative.

^dThe RNA 3 identified is F₃.