The status of RNAi-based transgenic research in plant nematology

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Dutta, Tushar Kanti ^a   Banakar, Prakash ^a   Rao, Uma ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Cyst nematodes; dsRNA; Gene silencing; Host delivered RNAi; Root knot nematodes; siRNA

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CROP PROTECTION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MELOIDOGYNE; MELOIDOGYNE INCOGNITA; MIDUOX GENE; MISPC3 GENE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PLANT NEMATODE INTERACTION; PLANT PARASITIC NEMATODE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOYBEAN; TOBACCO; TRANSGENICS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MELOIDOGYNE; NEMATODA;

EID: 84920651120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00760     Document Type: Article

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