A high level of transgenic viral small RNA is associated with broad potyvirus resistance in cucurbits

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1220-1238

  Leibman, Diana ^a   Wolf, Dalia ^a   Saharan, Vinod ^b   Zelcer, Aaron ^a   Arazi, Tzahi ^a   Yoel, Shiboleth ^a   Gaba, Victor ^a   Gal On, Amit ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b MAHARANA PRATAP UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; POTYVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SQUASH; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CUCURBITA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GENES, VIRAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POTYVIRUS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

CARICA PAPAYA; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO; POTYVIRUS; ZUCCHINI YELLOW MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 80052608508     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-05-11-0128     Document Type: Article

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