Plant RNA-silencing immunity and viral counter-defence strategies

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-35

  Wadsworth, Santiago ^a   Dunoyer, Patrice ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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