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Dual function of rice OsDR8 gene in disease resistance and thiamine accumulation.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Feb 2006
Wang Gongnan, Ding Xinhua, Yuan Meng, Qiu Deyun, Li Xianghua, Xu Caiguo, Wang Shiping
Abstract excerpt
The function of OsDR8, a rice disease resistance-responsive gene, was studied. Silencing of OsDR8 using an RNA interference approach resulted in phenotypic alteration of the plants. The transgenic plants with repressed expression of OsDR8 showed reduced resistance or susceptibility to Xanthomonas...
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