Virus-derived transgenes expressing hairpin RNA give immunity to <it>Tobacco mosaic virus </it>and <it>Cucumber mosaic virus</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>An effective method for obtaining resistant transgenic plants is to induce RNA silencing by expressing virus-derived dsRNA in plants and this method has been successfully implemented for the generation of different plant lines resist...

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Main Authors: Liu Yong, Zhang Kai, Niu Yanbing, Hu Qiong, Zhou Xueping
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-01-01
Series:Virology Journal
Online Access:http://www.virologyj.com/content/8/1/41