RNA silencing approaches for identifying pathogenicity and virulence elements towards engineering crop resistance to plant pathogenic fungi

CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources

Volumn 11, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Panwar, Vinay ^a,b   McCallum, Brent ^b   Jordan, Mark ^b   Loewen, Michele ^a   Fobert, Pierre ^a   McCartney, Curt ^b   Bakkeren, Guus ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b MORDEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^c SUMMERLAND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convergent transcription; Fungal genomics; Fungal silencing vectors; Fungal siRNA; Gene silencing; Hairpin RNA; Host induced gene silencing; RNAi; Small RNAs

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014043273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PAVSNNR201611027     Document Type: Review

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