TABLE 2.

Infection focus sizes on wheat seedlings produced by in vitro RNA transcripts generated from cloned cDNA copies of GFP-tagged WSMV CP deletion mutants^a

Mutant	Focus size (mm2)
WSMV-S81-GFP-6K1/CI(7aa) (wild type)	2.31 ± 0.44
WSMV-GFP-CPΔ36-84aa	2.68 ± 0.38
WSMV-GFP-CPΔ85-100aa	1.73 ± 0.36
WSMV-GFP-CPΔ48-100aa	1.45 ± 0.37
WSMV-GFP-CPΔ36-100aa	1.36 ± 0.30
WSMV-GFP-CPΔC14aa	0.64 ± 0.17
WSMV-GFP-CPΔC17aa	0.40 ± 0.21
WSMV-GFP-CPΔN6-27aa	0.53 ± 0.19
Mock	0

^aWheat seedlings were incubated in a greenhouse at 20 to 27°C. Focus sizes were estimated from 20 to 30 individual foci at 4 dpi.