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 …

Plant and animal small RNA communications between cells and organisms

X Chen, O Rechavi - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Since the discovery of eukaryotic small RNAs as the main effectors of RNA interference in
the late 1990s, diverse types of endogenous small RNAs have been characterized, most …

Bidirectional cross-kingdom RNAi and fungal uptake of external RNAs confer plant protection

M Wang, A Weiberg, FM Lin, BPHJ Thomma… - Nature plants, 2016 - nature.com
Aggressive fungal pathogens such as Botrytis and Verticillium spp. cause severe crop
losses worldwide. We recently discovered that Botrytis cinerea delivers small RNAs (Bc …

MicroRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris target host messenger RNAs

S Shahid, G Kim, NR Johnson, E Wafula, F Wang… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Dodders (Cuscuta spp.) are obligate parasitic plants that obtain water and nutrients from the
stems of host plants via specialized feeding structures called haustoria. Dodder haustoria …

[HTML][HTML] An RNAi-Based Control of Fusarium graminearum Infections Through Spraying of Long dsRNAs Involves a Plant Passage and Is Controlled by the Fungal …

A Koch, D Biedenkopf, A Furch, L Weber… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Meeting the increasing food and energy demands of a growing population will require the
development of ground-breaking strategies that promote sustainable plant production. Host …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A Phytophthora effector suppresses trans-kingdom RNAi to promote disease susceptibility

Y Hou, YI Zhai, LI Feng, HZ Karimi, BD Rutter, L Zeng… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
RNA silencing (RNAi) has a well-established role in anti-viral immunity in plants. The
destructive eukaryotic pathogen Phytophthora encodes suppressors of RNAi (PSRs), which …

Effector-mediated plant–virus–vector interactions

S Ray, CL Casteel - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Hemipterans (such as aphids, whiteflies, and leafhoppers) are some of the most devastating
insect pests due to the numerous plant pathogens they transmit as vectors, which are …

[HTML][HTML] Management of pest insects and plant diseases by non-transformative RNAi

D Cagliari, NP Dias, DM Galdeano… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Since the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi), scientists have made significant progress
towards the development of this unique technology for crop protection. The RNAi …

RNA interference mechanisms and applications in plant pathology

C Rosa, YW Kuo, H Wuriyanghan… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The origin of RNA interference (RNAi), the cell sentinel system widely shared among
eukaryotes that recognizes RNAs and specifically degrades or prevents their translation in …