Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an RNA-mediated reverse genetics technique that
has become an effective tool to investigate gene function in plants. Cotton is one of the most …

The exploding availability of genome and EST-based sequences from grasses requires a
technology that allows rapid functional analysis of the multitude of genes that these …

Wheat is a human food crop of high economic value and future improvements in wheat
breeding require in depth knowledge of gene functions. The hexaploid genome, large …

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 …

Advances made in genome sequencing projects and structural genomics are generating
large repertoire of candidate genes in plants associated with specific agronomic traits. Rapid …

RNA silencing is a high conserved mechanism in organisms that involves sequence-specific
RNA degradation. For virus induced gene silencing (VIGS), it is induced by infecting a plant …

With the completion of crop genome sequencing, a large number of genes' functions
affecting important agronomic traits of crops are waiting to be discovered. Due to the lack of …

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) by deploying viral-based vectors such as tobacco rattle
virus (TRV) is a homology-based gene silencing technique in post-transcriptional gene …

Virus induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an effective technology that exploits an antiviral
defense mechanism in plants. It is a recently developed gene transcript suppression …

Abstract Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) is a useful method for transient
downregulation of gene expression in crop plants. The geminivirus Cotton leaf crumple virus …