The invention provides a cucumber mosaic virus induced
gene silencing (CMV-ZMBJ VIGS)
system. The RNAs (ribonucleic acids) of an virion of the isolate CMV-ZMBJ which is separated from CMV naturally infecting corn in the
corn field are used as raw materials, after the full-length cDNAs of
RNA1,
RNA2 and
RNA3 in a
genome are amplified by RT-PCR (reverse transcription-
polymerase chain reaction), the full-length cDNAs are linked to binary expression vectors of a
plant, such as pCass-Rz, and then is transformed in
agrobacterium to achieve
infectivity, and thus CMV-ZMBJ infected cDNA cloned pCMV101, pCMV201 and pCMV301 are constructed successfully. The constructed CMV-ZMBJ VIGS
system is suitable for researching the functions of a variety of
plant genes and can be used for silencing the genes easily, quickly and efficiently at a low cost only by inserting a part of segments of
plant genes to be researched into a vector without carrying out genetic transformation. In addition, a CMV-ZMBJ VIGS vector can be used for researching the functions of corn genes, and compared with the existing BMV (brome
mosaic virus) VIGS vector which is usually used for researching the functions of corn genes; the CMV-ZMBJ VIGS vector is applicable to more hosts, including corn varieties such as Va35, B73, Zheng 58 and Mo17.