Table 1.

Transient virus resistance assay, with the tomato plants infiltrated with artificial trans‐acting small interfering RNA (atasi‐RNA) constructs, followed by challenge with the agro‐infectious Tomato leaf curl  N ew  D elhi virus (ToLCNDV) construct in three independent experiments for each assay. i and n indicate the number of plants showing viral amplification at 30 days post‐infiltration (dpi) and the number of plants challenged with ToLCNDV, respectively, for each atasi‐RNA construct used

Experiment	TRiV‐AC2 (i/n)	TRiV‐AC4 (i/n)	TRiVM2‐AC2 (i/n)
1	1/4	0/4	4/4
2	2/9	2/10	9/9
3	1/10	3/9	10/10