These included Sobic.006G239900, which encoded a homolog of the Cf-4A gene that is essential for leaf mold resistance in tomato (Kruijt et al. 2005), Sobic.010G228800, a leucine rich repeat (LRR) domain containing gene with roles in disease resistance in many plants (Goff and Ramonell 2007), and Sobic.002G096900, which encodes autophagy-related protein 3 and has been shown to be important for resistance to local viral diseases in cotton (Boya et al. 2013; Ismayil et al. 2020). This evidence concerns the gene ATG3 and viral load.