background and aims: virus-induced gene silencing (vigs) is a virus vector technology that exploits antiviral defense mechanism. by infecting plants with recombinant viruses containing host genes inserted in the viral genome, vigs achieves the rna silencing process. the purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility of tomato (lycopersicon esculentum mill.) and tobacco (nicotiana bent...

the discovery of rna interference (rnai) in recent years has revolutionized biological and medical research. rnai is the sequence-specific gene silencing triggered by double-stranded rna (dsrna). until a couple of years ago only biologists working with caenorhabditis elegans and plants could use rnai technology to gain insight into gene function……

background: rna interference (rnai) is the mechanism of gene silencing-mediated messenger rna degradation by small interference rna (sirna), which becomes a powerful tool for in vivo research, especially in the areas of cancer. in this research, the potential use of an expression vector as a specific sirna producing tool for silencing of bcr-abl in k562 cell line has been investigated. methods:...

Background: RNA interference (RNAi) is the mechanism of gene silencing-mediated messenger RNA degradation by small interference RNA (siRNA), which becomes a powerful tool for in vivo research, especially in the areas of cancer. In this research, the potential use of an expression vector as a specific siRNA producing tool for silencing of Bcr-abl in K562 cell line has been investigated. Methods:...

Background:Potyvirus-based virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is used for knocking down the expression of a target gene in numerous plant species. Sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV) is a monopartite, positive single strand RNA virus. Objectives:pBINTRA6 vector was modified by inserting a gene segment of SCMV in place of Tobacco rattle virus (TRV) genome part 1 (TRV1 or RNA1)...

One of the most efficient mechanisms by which plants protect themselves from invading virusesis the specific RNA-dependent silencing pathway termed post-transcriptional gene silencing(PTGS). In this mechanism, resistance to a virus is engineered through the expression of asegment of the virus genomein transgenic plants. Potato VirusY (PVY) is one of the mostdamaging viruses of potato, infecting...