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Abstract
Gene expression in plants can be suppressed in a sequence-specific manner by infection with virus vectors carrying fragments of host genes. Recent developments have revealed that the mechanism of this gene silencing is based on an RNA-mediated defence against viruses. It has also emerged that a related mechanism is involved in the post-transcriptional silencing that accounts for between line variation in transgene expression and cosuppresion of transgenes and endogenous genes. The technology of virus-induced gene silencing is being refined and adapted as a high throughput procedure for functional genomics in plants.Mesh:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10322199 DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(99)80022-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Plant Biol ISSN: 1369-5266 Impact factor: 7.834