Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is one of the most important crops worldwide. Considerable
efforts have been made on molecular breeding of new varieties. The large-scale gene …

Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is one of the most agronomically important crops worldwide for its
unique textile fiber production and serving as food and feed stock. Molecular breeding and …

Gossypium barbadense is a cultivated cotton species and possesses many desirable traits,
including high fiber quality and resistance to pathogens, especially Verticillium dahliae (a …

Cotton is an important cash crop worldwide, and is a significant source of fiber, feed,
foodstuff, oil and biofuel products. Considerable effort has been expended to increase …

RNA interference (RNAi) is a highly specific gene-silencing phenomenon triggered by
dsRNA1. This silencing mechanism uses two major classes of RNA regulators: microRNAs …

Virus‐induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an extremely powerful tool for plant functional
genomics. We used Tobacco rattle virus (TRV)‐derived VIGS vectors expressed from binary …

Tobacco rattle virus (TRV)-based virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is widely used in
various plant species to downregulate the expression of a target plant gene. TRV is a …

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a technology that exploits an RNA-mediated antiviral
defense mechanism and has been shown to be of great potential in plant reverse genetics …

Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression and virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) are
very useful in functional genomics in plants. However, whether these methods are effective …

Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. is a model plant species in which to study plant gene
functions. Recently developed virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) offers a rapid and high …