Plant Gene Silencing
Methods and Protocols
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Plant microbiome confers versatile functional roles to enhance survival fitness as well as productivity. In the present study two pearl millet panicle microbiome member species Bacillus subtilis PBs 12 and Bacill...
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Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are abundant in plants, however, their regulatory roles remain unclear in most biological processes, such as response in salinity stress which is harm to plant production. Here w...
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Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation (AMT) is the basis of modern-day plant biotechnology. One major drawback of this technology is the recalcitrance of many plant species/varieties to Agrobacterium infect...
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Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench.] is a versatile crop, grown in 30 countries and a food source for nearly 500 million people globally. Although the sorghum genome is sequenced, a limited understanding of gen...
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The high throughputness and affordability of “omics” technologies is leading to the identification of a large number of abiotic stress genes, with many of them responsive to multiple stresses. In vivo function...
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Legumes carry out symbiotic nitrogen (N) fixation by forming N-fixing nodules with rhizobia during N deficiency. In an effort to discover new legume genes essential to nodule function using the Medicago truncatul...
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Legumes play a key role in the sustainable agriculture to fix atmospheric nitrogen through a mutualistic symbiotic process with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Medicago truncatula is a diploid model legume and has high...
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With the increasing understanding of fundamentals of gene silencing pathways in plants, various tools and techniques for downregulating the expression of a target gene have been developed across multiple plant...
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A 3-ketoacyl-CoA synthase involved in biosynthesis of very long chain fatty acids and cuticular wax plays a vital role in aerial organ development in M. truncatula.
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Flowering time is an important trait for productivity in legumes, which include many food and fodder plants. Medicago truncatula (Medicago) is a model temperate legume used to study flowering time pathways. Like
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Compound leaves show more complex patterns than simple leaves, and this is mainly because of a specific morphogenetic process (leaflet initiation and arrangement) that occurs during their development. How the ...
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Arabidopsis VIRE2-INTERACTING PROTEIN2 (VIP2) was previously described as a protein with a NOT domain, and Arabidopsis vip2 mutants are recalcitrant to Agrobacterium-mediated root transformation. Here we show tha...
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In the version of this Article originally published, the name of author Zhenpeng Luo was incorrectly listed as Zhenpeng Luo Luo. Additionally, nitrate in Fig. 6b was incorrectly shown as ‘NO3+’ rather than ‘NO3–’...
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Legume plants can assimilate inorganic nitrogen and have access to fixed nitrogen through symbiotic interaction with diazotrophic bacteria called rhizobia. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation is an energy-consuming pr...
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Plants have evolved excellent ability of flexibly regulating the growth of organs to adapt to changing environment, for example, the modulation of lateral root development in response to environmental stresses...
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Although the draft genome of sorghum is available, the understanding of gene function is limited due to the lack of extensive mutant resources. Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an alternative to mutant r...
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Legumes play irreplaceable roles in sustainable agriculture due to their unique capability of fixing gaseous nitrogen in the atmosphere and turning into plant-usable ammonium through interaction with rhizobia....
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Brachypodium distachyon is a model grass species for economically important cereal crops. Efforts are in progress to develop useful functional genomic resources in Brachypodium. A tobacco retrotransposon, Tnt1, ...