Rice is a global food grain crop for more than one-third of the human population and a
source for food and nutritional security. Rice production is subjected to various stresses; …

RNA interference (RNAi) was discovered at the end of last millennium, changing the way
scientists understood regulation of gene expression. Within the following two decades, a …

Small RNAs (sRNAs) are known to regulate pathogenic plant–microbe interactions.
Emerging evidence from the study of these model systems suggests that microRNAs …

Molecular plant–fungal interaction studies have mainly focused on small secreted protein
effectors. However, accumulating evidence shows that numerous fungal secondary …

Plants' response to pathogens is highly complex and involves changes at different levels,
such as activation or repression of a vast array of genes. Recently, many studies have …

Gene silencing guided by small RNAs governs a broad range of cellular processes in
eukaryotes. Small RNAs are important components of plant immunity because they …

Magnaporthe oryzae is one of the most devastating pathogenic fungi that affects a wide
range of cereal plants, especially rice. Rice blast disease causes substantial economic …

Abstract Background Small RNAs (sRNAs) are short non-coding RNA molecules (20–30 nt)
that regulate gene expression at transcriptional or post-transcriptional levels in many …

Small RNAs act as fungal pathogen effectors that silence host target genes to promote
infection, a virulence mechanism termed cross-kingdom RNA interference (RNAi). The …

In filamentous fungi, gene silencing through RNA interference (RNAi) shapes many
biological processes, including pathogenicity. We explored the requirement of key …