Down-regulation of Fusarium oxysporum endogenous genes by Host-Delivered RNA interference enhances disease resistance

Frontiers in Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2016, Pages

  Hu, Zongli ^a,b   Parekh, Urvi ^a   Maruta, Natsumi ^a   Trusov, Yuri ^a   Botella, Jose R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Disease control; Disease resistance; Fusarium oxysporum; Host Delivered RNAi; Host induced gene silencing; Plant fungal pathogens

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969551337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2015.00001     Document Type: Article

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