Plant genetic transformation heavily relies on the bacterial pathogen Agrobacterium
tumefaciens as a powerful tool to deliver genes of interest into a host plant. Inside the plant …

Highlights•RNA produced in a host plant can affect gene expression in an interacting fungus
or oomycete.•RNA produced in a fungus can affect the defense system of a host …

Genetically Modified Organism-Free RNA Interference: Exogenous Application of RNA Molecules
in Plants1 [OPEN] | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement …

Dicer proteins are central to the different mechanisms involving RNA interference. Plants
have evolved multiple DICER‐LIKE (DCL) copies, thus enabling functional diversification. In …

In this report, we describe a method for the delivery of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) into
plant cells. In vitro synthesized siRNAs that were designed to target the coding region of a …

Homology based gene silencing has emerged as a convenient approach for repressing
expression of genes in order to study their functions. For this purpose, several antisense or …

Transgenes have become essential to modern biology, being an important tool in functional
genomic studies and also in the development of biotechnological products. One of the major …

Foliar application of dsRNA to elicit an RNA interference (RNAi) response is currently under
consideration as a crop protection strategy. To access the RNAi machinery of a plant, foliarly …

Plants can record external stimuli in mobile mRNAs and systemically deliver them to distal
tissues to adjust development. Despite the identification of thousands of mobile mRNAs, the …

The cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, is a major insect pest for a wide range of
agricultural crops. It causes significant yield loss through feeding damage and by increasing …