DICER-LIKE2 plays a primary role in transitive silencing of transgenes in Arabidopsis.

Dicer-like (DCL) enzymes play a pivotal role in RNA silencing in plants, processing the long double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) that triggers silencing into the primary short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) that mediate it. The siRNA population can be augmented and silencing amplified via transitivity, an RNA-de...

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Main Authors: Sizolwenkosi Mlotshwa, Gail J Pruss, Angela Peragine, Matthew W Endres, Junjie Li, Xuemei Chen, R Scott Poethig, Lewis H Bowman, Vicki Vance
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2262140?pdf=render