RNAi as an emerging approach to control Fusarium head blight disease and mycotoxin contamination in cereals

Pest Management Science

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 790-799

  Machado, Ana Karla ^a   Brown, Neil A ^a,b   Urban, Martin ^a   Kanyuka, Kostya ^a   Hammond Kosack, Kim E ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

barley; deoxynivalenol; disease resistance; fungal diseases; Fusarium graminearum; host induced gene silencing (HIGS); maize; spray induced gene silencing (SIGS); transgenic plants; wheat

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; CEREAL; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PATHOGEN; RNA; TOXIN; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

MYCOTOXIN;

FOOD GRAIN; FUNGAL GENE; FUSARIUM; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EDIBLE GRAIN; FUSARIUM; GENES, FUNGAL; MYCOTOXINS; PLANT DISEASES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 85034769151     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.4748     Document Type: Review

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