RNAi in Plants I take exception with your claim in The Scientist1 that RNAi was first discovered in Caenorhabditis elegans. While the term "RNAi" was first coined by Fire and colleagues,2 several ...

The chromatin-associated small interfering RNA (siRNA) pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana. At present, there are no generally accepted examples of canonical miRNAs that are conserved between plants ...

Argonaute proteins lie at the heart of related small-RNA pathways that operate in organisms as diverse as Archaea, plants and animals 14. They bind various small RNAs that are <32 nucleotides (nt ...

The discovery of RNAi dates back to the 1990s when researchers observed unexpected gene silencing in plants and fungi. In 1998, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello published a groundbreaking study ...

We believe the reason these plants can prevent seed infections is because the antiviral RNA interference pathway is active ...

The natural RNAi mechanism can be directed by either short interfering RNA (siRNA) or microRNA (miRNA). 1 There are four key steps in the RNAi pathway. When miRNA acts as the guide for RNAi, only a ...

University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening ...

Professor Bernard Carroll from UQ’s School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences said nanoparticle technology could help ...