During plant-pathogen interactions, plants have to defend the living transposable elements
from pathogens. In response to such elements, plants activate a variety of defense …

Environmental stresses diversely affect multiple processes related to the growth,
development, and yield of many crops worldwide. In response, plants have developed …

Ricinus communis L. seeds can germinate at high temperatures, but further development of
the seedlings is negatively affected. This mainly caused by impairment of energy-generating …

Specific miRNA families are involved in susceptibility or antiviral immunity in plants. Manihot
esculenta Crantz (cassava) is a perennial plant that is an important food security crop in sub …

Bacopa monnieri known as LBrahmiL is a well-known medicinal plant belonging to
Scrophulariaceae family for its nootropic properties. To the best of our knowledge, no …

RNA interference (RNAi) plays key roles in post-transcriptional and chromatin modification
levels as well as regulates various eukaryotic gene expressions which are involved in stress …

This report is the outcome of an EFSA procurement aiming at investigating and summarising
the state of knowledge on (I) the mode-of-action of dsRNA and miRNA pathways,(II) the …

Cultivated tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, is one of the most common fruits in the global
food industry. Together with the wild tomato Solanum pennellii, it is widely used for …

Dicer‐like (DCL), Argonaute (AGO), and RNA‐dependent RNA polymerase (RDR) are
known as the three major gene families that act as the critical components of RNA …

The Rosaceae is a plant family of great importance for human nutrition and health. Many
traits and developmental processes of the Rosaceae are influenced by epigenetic …