Small silencing RNAs: an expanding universe

M Ghildiyal, PD Zamore - Nature reviews genetics, 2009 - nature.com
Since the discovery in 1993 of the first small silencing RNA, a dizzying number of small RNA
classes have been identified, including microRNAs (miRNAs), small interfering RNAs …

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 …

RNA-based antiviral immunity

SW Ding - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2010 - nature.com
In eukaryotic RNA-based antiviral immunity, viral double-stranded RNA is recognized as a
pathogen-associated molecular pattern and processed into small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) …

Genetic and epigenetic control of plant heat responses

J Liu, L Feng, J Li, Z He - Frontiers in plant science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Plants have evolved sophisticated genetic and epigenetic regulatory systems to respond
quickly to unfavorable environmental conditions such as heat, cold, drought, and pathogen …

[HTML][HTML] Antiviral immunity directed by small RNAs

SW Ding, O Voinnet - Cell, 2007 - cell.com
Plants and invertebrates can protect themselves from viral infection through RNA silencing.
This antiviral immunity involves production of virus-derived small interfering RNAs (viRNAs) …

Arabidopsis RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerases and Dicer-Like Proteins in Antiviral Defense and Small Interfering RNA Biogenesis during Turnip Mosaic Virus …

H Garcia-Ruiz, A Takeda, EJ Chapman… - The Plant …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Plants respond to virus infections by activation of RNA-based silencing, which limits infection
at both the single-cell and system levels. Viruses encode RNA silencing suppressor proteins …

Post-transcriptional small RNA pathways in plants: mechanisms and regulations

H Vaucheret - Genes & development, 2006 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Small RNAs are riboregulators that have critical roles in most eukaryotes. They repress gene
expression by acting either on DNA to guide sequence elimination and chromatin …

The 21-nucleotide, but not 22-nucleotide, viral secondary small interfering RNAs direct potent antiviral defense by two cooperative argonautes in Arabidopsis thaliana

XB Wang, J Jovel, P Udomporn, Y Wang, Q Wu… - The Plant …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Arabidopsis thaliana defense against distinct positive-strand RNA viruses requires
production of virus-derived secondary small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) by multiple RNA …

RNAi-mediated viral immunity requires amplification of virus-derived siRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana

XB Wang, Q Wu, T Ito, F Cillo, WX Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
In diverse eukaryotic organisms, Dicer-processed, virus-derived small interfering RNAs
direct antiviral immunity by RNA silencing or RNA interference. Here we show that in …

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS): a powerful tool for crop improvement and its advancement towards epigenetics

S Zulfiqar, MA Farooq, T Zhao, PP Wang… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an RNA-mediated reverse genetics technology that
has evolved into an indispensable approach for analyzing the function of genes. It …