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Trans-specific gene silencing between host and parasitic plants.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Nov 2008
Tomilov Alexey A, Tomilova Natalia B, Wroblewski Tadeusz, Michelmore Richard, Yoder John I
Abstract excerpt
Species of Orobanchaceae parasitize the roots of nearby host plants to rob them of water and other nutrients. Parasitism can be debilitating to the host plant, and some of the world's most pernicious agricultural pests are parasitic weeds. We demonstrate here that interfering hairpin constructs transformed into host plants can silence expression of the targeted genes in the parasite. Transgenic roots of the...
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