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VIGS – genomics goes functional

2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.tplants.2009.09.002

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Annette Becker, Matthias Lange,

Plant and Fungal Interactions Research

Genome and EST sequencing projects generate a wealth of sequence information for agronomically and phylogenetically important plant species of which the majority is difficult to subject to functional genomics. Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) provides a powerful tool to enable gene functional analysis for species not amenable to stable genetic transformation. Recent approaches allow the use of VIGS as a high throughput method that will exploit the potential of genome and transcriptome projects further.