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Review
. 2008 Jun;147(2):456-68.
doi: 10.1104/pp.108.117275.

RNA silencing in plants: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Andrew Eamens  1 , Ming-Bo Wang, Neil A Smith, Peter M Waterhouse
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Review

RNA silencing in plants: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Andrew Eamens et al. Plant Physiol. 2008 Jun.
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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Simplified reproduction of the model proposed by Lindbo et al. (1993) to explain the RNA degradation and antiviral state observed in their study. The plant cell is able to detect elevated levels or aberrant forms of RNA in the cytoplasm (C), leading to the targeting and inactivation of the RNA by a protein or nucleic acid cellular factor that degrades the targeted RNA.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
RNA silencing of GUS in rice callus using a sense, antisense, or IR vector. Waterhouse et al. (1998) clearly showed the significantly increased silencing efficiency offered by their IR GUS vector, which produces hpRNA to direct GUS silencing, compared with the silencing efficiencies of existing plant expression vectors, which only expressed unidirectional sequences in either the sense or the antisense orientation.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
The parallel RNA silencing pathways of Arabidopsis. Schematic representation of the parallel DCL/sRNA-directed RNA silencing pathways in the model dicotyledonous species Arabidopsis, outlining the specific step or steps in each pathway for the individual RNA silencing-associated proteins mentioned in the text of this review.
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