Development of plants resistant to tomato geminiviruses using artificial trans-acting small interfering RNA

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 724-734

  Singh, Archana ^a,b   Taneja, Jyoti ^a   Dasgupta, Indranil ^b   Mukherjee, Sunil Kumar ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial tasiRNA; Geminivirus; microRNA; Tobacco; Tomato; Virus resistance

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; GEMINIVIRIDAE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TOMATO LEAF CURL GUJARAT VIRUS; TOMATO LEAF CURL NEW DELHI VIRUS;

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

GEMINIVIRIDAE; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; TOBACCO; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIROLOGY;

GEMINIVIRIDAE; GENETIC VECTORS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TOBACCO;

EID: 84937643233     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12229     Document Type: Article

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