Aflatoxin-free transgenic maize using host-induced gene silencing

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Thakare, Dhiraj ^a   Zhang, Jianwei ^a,b   Wing, Rod A ^a,b   Cotty, Peter J ^a   Schmidt, Monica A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Arizona Genomics Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CROPS; FOOD SUPPLY; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLITES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

AFLATOXIN BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY; ECONOMIC PROBLEMS; PARTS PER BILLION; PATHOGEN INFECTION; SECONDARY METABOLITES; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSGENIC MAIZE;

AFLATOXINS;

AFLATOXIN; PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ASPERGILLUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AFLATOXINS; ASPERGILLUS; GENE SILENCING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85034094748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602382     Document Type: Article

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