Roles of RNA silencing in viral and non-viral plant immunity and in the crosstalk between disease resistance systems

S Lopez-Gomollon, DC Baulcombe - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
RNA silencing is a well-established antiviral immunity system in plants, in which small RNAs
guide Argonaute proteins to targets in viral RNA or DNA, resulting in virus repression. Virus …

Modern plant biotechnology as a strategy in addressing climate change and attaining food security

TIK Munaweera, NU Jayawardana… - Agriculture & Food …, 2022 - Springer
Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

Plant microRNAs: biogenesis, homeostasis, and degradation

J Wang, J Mei, G Ren - Frontiers in plant science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of endogenous, tiny, non-coding RNAs, are master regulators
of gene expression among most eukaryotes. Intracellular miRNA abundance is regulated …

A structural view of miRNA biogenesis and function

AL Leitão, FJ Enguita - Non-coding RNA, 2022 - mdpi.com
Micro-RNAs (miRNAs) are a class of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that act as post-
transcriptional regulators of gene expression. Since their discovery in 1993, they have been …

Research advances in potyviruses: from the laboratory bench to the field

X Yang, Y Li, A Wang - Annual review of phytopathology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Potyviruses (viruses in the genus Potyvirus, family Potyviridae) constitute the largest group
of known plant-infecting RNA viruses and include many agriculturally important viruses that …

VIGS goes viral: how VIGS transforms our understanding of plant science

C Rössner, D Lotz, A Becker - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) has developed into an indispensable approach to
gene function analysis in a wide array of species, many of which are not amenable to stable …

Plant immunity against viruses: antiviral immune receptors in focus

IP Calil, EPB Fontes - Annals of Botany, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background Among the environmental limitations that affect plant growth, viruses cause
major crop losses worldwide and represent serious threats to food security. Significant …

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS): a powerful tool for crop improvement and its advancement towards epigenetics

S Zulfiqar, MA Farooq, T Zhao, PP Wang… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an RNA-mediated reverse genetics technology that
has evolved into an indispensable approach for analyzing the function of genes. It …

Jasmonate signaling enhances RNA silencing and antiviral defense in rice

Z Yang, Y Huang, J Yang, S Yao, K Zhao, D Wang… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2020 - cell.com
Small RNA-mediated RNA silencing is an important antiviral mechanism in higher plants. It
has been shown that RNA silencing components can be upregulated by viral infection …

The functions of plant small RNA s in development and in stress responses

S Li, C Castillo‐González, B Yu, X Zhang - The Plant Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Like metazoans, plants use small regulatory RNA s (sRNA s) to direct gene expression.
Several classes of sRNA s, which are distinguished by their origin and biogenesis, exist in …