Development of the VIGS System in the Dioecious Plant <i>Silene latifolia</i>

(1) Background: <i>Silene latifolia</i> is a dioecious plant, whose sex is determined by XY-type sex chromosomes. <i>Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae</i> is a smut fungus that infects <i>S. latifolia</i> plants and causes masculinization in female flowers, as if <...

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Main Authors: Naoko Fujita, Yusuke Kazama, Noriko Yamagishi, Kyoko Watanabe, Saki Ando, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Shigeyuki Kawano, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Ken Komatsu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-02-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/5/1031