EIF4E and viral infectious disease: However, the susceptibility of the edited plants to TEV in tomato that we observed here could be due to the redundant activities of eIF4E homologs (eIF4E1 and eIF4E2) coupled with the absence of a dominant negative allele whose protein product could interfere with the endogenous wild‐type proteins and inhibit viral infection (Kang et al., 2007).