Cross-kingdom small RNAs among animals, plants and microbes

Cells

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2019, Pages

  Zeng, Jun ^a,b   Gupta, Vijai Kumar ^c   Jiang, Yueming ^a,d   Yang, Bao ^a,d   Gong, Liang ^a,d   Zhu, Hong ^a,d  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^d AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Crop protection; Cross kingdom RNAi; HIGS; RNA interference; SIGS; Small RNAs

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CROP PROTECTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE;

EID: 85128291957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cells8040371     Document Type: Review

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