| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37603 | Trends in Biotechnology | 2007 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Coincident with the award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2006 to Fire and Mello for their discovery of RNAi, plant scientists have succeeded in using RNAi-based techniques to control nematodes, a hitherto unmanageable plant parasite. Recent work has demonstrated that the expression in a host plant of double-stranded RNA targeting housekeeping or parasitism genes in the root-knot nematode resulted in resistance to nematode infection.
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Authors
Godelieve Gheysen, Bartel Vanholme,