Transgenic RNA interference (RNAi)-derived field resistance to cassava brown streak disease

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1019-1031

  Ogwok, Emmanuel ^a   Odipio, John ^a   Halsey, Mark ^b   Gaitán Solís, Eliana ^b   Bua, Anton ^a   Taylor, Nigel J ^b   Fauquet, Claude M ^b   Alicai, Titus ^a  

^a National Crops Resources Research Institute   (Uganda)

^b DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; IMMUNOLOGY; MANIHOT; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; POTYVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UGANDA; VIROLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HEMIPTERA; MANIHOT; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POTYVIRIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; UGANDA;

CASSAVA BROWN STREAK VIRUS; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84868003478     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2012.00812.x     Document Type: Article

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