The invention discloses miR159a related to
plant antivirus and application of the miR159a in improvement of
virus resistance of plants, and belongs to the technical field of
genetic engineering. The miR159a related to the
plant antivirus is nbe-miR159a, and the
nucleotide sequence of the miR159a related to the
plant antivirus is shown as SEQ ID NO: 1. The
target gene of the nbe-miR159a is a CPR5
gene, an overexpression vector of the nbe-miR159a is constructed, the overexpression vector is converted into a tobacco plant, the expression quantity of the nbe-miR159a in tobacco is increased, and the relative expression quantity of CPR5 can be reduced, so that the resistance of the tobacco to the potato Y
virus is improved. Therefore, the nbe-miR159a has an important application prospect in prevention and treatment of
plant virus diseases and improvement of
virus resistance of plants.