Viruses cause epidemics on all major cultures of agronomic importance, representing a
serious threat to global food security. As strict intracellular pathogens, they cannot be …

Background Among the environmental limitations that affect plant growth, viruses cause
major crop losses worldwide and represent serious threats to food security. Significant …

Small RNA-mediated RNA silencing is an important antiviral mechanism in higher plants. It
has been shown that RNA silencing components can be upregulated by viral infection …

RNA interference (RNAi)-based antiviral defense is a small RNA-dependent repression
mechanism of plants to against viruses. Although the core components of antiviral RNAi are …

During plant-pathogen interactions, plants have to defend the living transposable elements
from pathogens. In response to such elements, plants activate a variety of defense …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the major staple foods for global consumption. A major
roadblock to global rice production is persistent loss of crops caused by plant diseases …

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 …

The phytohormone auxin plays critical roles in regulating myriads of plant growth and
developmental processes. Microbe infection can disturb auxin signaling resulting in defects …

RNA interference (RNAi)-based antiviral defense generates small interfering RNAs that
represent the entire genome sequences of both RNA and DNA viruses as well as viroids …

Small RNAs regulate a multitude of cellular processes, including development, stress
responses, metabolism, and maintenance of genome integrity, in a sequence-specific …