Roles of RNA silencing in viral and non-viral plant immunity and in the crosstalk between disease resistance systems

S Lopez-Gomollon, DC Baulcombe - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
RNA silencing is a well-established antiviral immunity system in plants, in which small RNAs
guide Argonaute proteins to targets in viral RNA or DNA, resulting in virus repression. Virus …

The role of viruses in identifying and analyzing RNA silencing

DC Baulcombe - Annual Review of Virology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Adaptive antiviral immunity in plants is an RNA-based mechanism in which small RNAs
derived from both strands of the viral RNA are guides for an Argonaute (AGO) nuclease. The …

CRISPR/Cas9-targeted mutagenesis of the tomato susceptibility gene PMR4 for resistance against powdery mildew

MI Santillán Martínez, V Bracuto, E Koseoglou… - BMC plant biology, 2020 - Springer
Background The development of CRISPR/Cas9 technology has facilitated targeted
mutagenesis in an efficient and precise way. Previously, RNAi silencing of the susceptibility …

Small RNAs and extracellular vesicles: New mechanisms of cross-species communication and innovative tools for disease control

Q Cai, B He, A Weiberg, AH Buck, H Jin - PLoS pathogens, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Small RNA (sRNA)-mediated RNA interference (RNAi) is a conserved regulatory
mechanism for gene expression throughout the domain Eukarya. Recent studies have …

Callose balancing at plasmodesmata

SW Wu, R Kumar, ABB Iswanto… - Journal of experimental …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In plants, communication and molecular exchanges between different cells and tissues are
dependent on the apoplastic and symplastic pathways. Symplastic molecular exchanges …

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus intergenic siRNAs target a host long noncoding RNA to modulate disease symptoms

Y Yang, T Liu, D Shen, J Wang, X Ling, Z Hu… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) and its related begomoviruses cause fast-spreading
diseases in tomato worldwide. How this virus induces diseases remains largely unclear …

Biogenesis, function, and applications of virus-derived small RNAs in plants

C Zhang, Z Wu, Y Li, J Wu - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
RNA silencing, an evolutionarily conserved and sequence-specific gene-inactivation
system, has a pivotal role in antiviral defense in most eukaryotic organisms. In plants, a class …

Next-generation sequencing and genome editing in plant virology

A Hadidi, R Flores, T Candresse, M Barba - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been applied to plant virology since 2009. NGS
provides highly efficient, rapid, low cost DNA, or RNA high-throughput sequencing of the …

Antiviral roles of abscisic acid in plants

M Alazem, NS Lin - Frontiers in plant science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Abscisic acid (ABA) is a key hormone involved in tuning responses to several abiotic
stresses and also has remarkable impacts on plant defense against various pathogens. The …

Comprehensive Transcriptome Analyses Reveal that Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid Triggers Genome-Wide Changes in Alternative Splicing, Inducible trans-Acting …

Y Zheng, Y Wang, B Ding, Z Fei - Journal of Virology, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Many pathogens express noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) during infection processes. In the most
extreme case, pathogenic ncRNAs alone (such as viroids) can infect eukaryotic organisms …