Environmental fate of double-stranded RNA in agricultural soils

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Dubelman, Samuel ^a   Fischer, Joshua ^a   Zapata, Fatima ^a   Huizinga, Kristin ^a   Jiang, Changjian ^a   Uffman, Joshua ^a   Levine, Steven ^a   Carson, David ^a  

^a MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PLANT RNA; SOIL;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BULK DENSITY; CLAY; DIABROTICA UNDECIMPUNCTATA; DIABROTICA VIRGIFERA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INCUBATION TIME; LOAM SOIL; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL DEGRADATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLYSIS; INSECT; KINETICS; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLYSIS; INSECTS; KINETICS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, PLANT; SOIL;

EID: 84899853219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093155     Document Type: Article

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