| Literature DB >> 12438638 |
A E Martínez de Alba1, R Flores, C Hernández.
Abstract
In plants, posttranscriptional gene silencing (PTGS) has been reported for cytoplasmic RNAs from endogenous nuclear genes, transgenes, viruses, and, recently, for a viroid with nuclear replication and accumulation. However, phenomena of this kind have not been described for mitochondrial or chloroplastic RNAs. Here we show that viroids that replicate and accumulate in the chloroplast are also targets of PTGS and this process may control viroid titer.Mesh:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12438638 PMCID: PMC136683 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.24.13094-13096.2002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103