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. 2018 Jul 11;24(1):1-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.06.015.

The Trojan Horse of the Plant Kingdom

Claudia Castillo-González  1 , Xiuren Zhang  2
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The Trojan Horse of the Plant Kingdom

Claudia Castillo-González et al. Cell Host Microbe. .
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Abstract

The advent of host-induced gene silencing (HIGS) technology for the development of pathogen-resistant cultivars led to the discovery of cross-kingdom RNA interference. In a recent Science paper, Cai et al. (2018) discovered that plant extracellular vesicles act as Trojan horses to deliver small RNAs into fungi to fight infection.

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