Transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plant (10x) Fluorescence microscopy Dr. Heiti Paves Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia (discovermagazine.com)
Sattarzadeh, A., Krahmer, J., Germain, A. D., and Hanson, M. R. (2009) A myosin XI tail domain homologous to the yeast myosin vacuole - binding domain interacts with plastids and stromules in Nicotiana benthamiana, Molecular plant 2, 1351 - 1358. (hansonlab.org)
So the researchers reconstructed the DNA virus and introduced it to Nicotiana benthamiana, a close relative of tobacco that's vulnerable to a diverse range of plant viruses. (sciencemag.org)