Application of RNA silencing to plant disease resistance

Silence

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Duan, Cheng Guo ^a,b   Wang, Chun Han ^a   Guo, Hui Shan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HIGS; PTGS; Resistance; RNA silencing; TGS; Viroid; Virus

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA VIRUS; FUNGUS; GENE SILENCING; INSECT; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA VIRUS; TRANSGENE; VIRAL SILENCINGF REPRESSOR; VIROID;

DNA VIRUSES; HEXAPODA; VIROIDS;

EID: 84869754206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1758907X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-907X-3-5     Document Type: Review

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