Bidirectional cross-kingdom RNAi and fungal uptake of external RNAs confer plant protection

Nature Plants

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Ming ^a   Weiberg, Arne ^a,d   Lin, Feng Mao ^b   Thomma, Bart P H J ^c   Huang, Hsien Da ^b   Jin, Hailing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BOTRYTIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT IMMUNITY; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOMATO;

ARABIDOPSIS; BOTRYTIS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT IMMUNITY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 84990223903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2016.151     Document Type: Article

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