Catch Me If You Can! RNA Silencing-Based Improvement of Antiviral Plant Immunity
Viruses are obligate parasites which cause a range of severe plant diseases that affect farm productivity around the world, resulting in immense annual losses of yield. Therefore, control of viral pathogens continues to be an agronomic and scientific challenge requiring innovative and ground-breakin...
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| description | Viruses are obligate parasites which cause a range of severe plant diseases that affect farm productivity around the world, resulting in immense annual losses of yield. Therefore, control of viral pathogens continues to be an agronomic and scientific challenge requiring innovative and ground-breaking strategies to meet the demands of a growing world population. Over the last decade, RNA silencing has been employed to develop plants with an improved resistance to biotic stresses based on their function to provide protection from invasion by foreign nucleic acids, such as viruses. This natural phenomenon can be exploited to control agronomically relevant plant diseases. Recent evidence argues that this biotechnological method, called host-induced gene silencing, is effective against sucking insects, nematodes, and pathogenic fungi, as well as bacteria and viruses on their plant hosts. Here, we review recent studies which reveal the enormous potential that RNA-silencing strategies hold for providing an environmentally friendly mechanism to protect crop plants from viral diseases. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-169852096daf4132a460727d93c484502022-12-22T02:22:37ZengMDPI AGViruses1999-49152019-07-0111767310.3390/v11070673v11070673Catch Me If You Can! RNA Silencing-Based Improvement of Antiviral Plant ImmunityFatima Yousif Gaffar0Aline Koch1Centre for BioSystems, Institute of Phytopathology, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26, D-35392 Giessen, GermanyCentre for BioSystems, Institute of Phytopathology, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26, D-35392 Giessen, GermanyViruses are obligate parasites which cause a range of severe plant diseases that affect farm productivity around the world, resulting in immense annual losses of yield. Therefore, control of viral pathogens continues to be an agronomic and scientific challenge requiring innovative and ground-breaking strategies to meet the demands of a growing world population. Over the last decade, RNA silencing has been employed to develop plants with an improved resistance to biotic stresses based on their function to provide protection from invasion by foreign nucleic acids, such as viruses. This natural phenomenon can be exploited to control agronomically relevant plant diseases. Recent evidence argues that this biotechnological method, called host-induced gene silencing, is effective against sucking insects, nematodes, and pathogenic fungi, as well as bacteria and viruses on their plant hosts. Here, we review recent studies which reveal the enormous potential that RNA-silencing strategies hold for providing an environmentally friendly mechanism to protect crop plants from viral diseases.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/7/673RNA silencingHost-induced gene silencingSpray-induced gene silencingvirus controlRNA silencing-based crop protectionGMO crops |
| spellingShingle | Fatima Yousif Gaffar Aline Koch Catch Me If You Can! RNA Silencing-Based Improvement of Antiviral Plant Immunity Viruses RNA silencing Host-induced gene silencing Spray-induced gene silencing virus control RNA silencing-based crop protection GMO crops |
| title | Catch Me If You Can! RNA Silencing-Based Improvement of Antiviral Plant Immunity |
| title_full | Catch Me If You Can! RNA Silencing-Based Improvement of Antiviral Plant Immunity |
| title_fullStr | Catch Me If You Can! RNA Silencing-Based Improvement of Antiviral Plant Immunity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Catch Me If You Can! RNA Silencing-Based Improvement of Antiviral Plant Immunity |
| title_short | Catch Me If You Can! RNA Silencing-Based Improvement of Antiviral Plant Immunity |
| title_sort | catch me if you can rna silencing based improvement of antiviral plant immunity |
| topic | RNA silencing Host-induced gene silencing Spray-induced gene silencing virus control RNA silencing-based crop protection GMO crops |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/7/673 |
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