More information: Si Liu et al, Antiviral RNA interference inhibits virus vertical transmission in plants, Cell Host & Microbe (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.08.009 Provided by University of ...

“RNA interference has been tried to control DNA viruses in plants, but it has not worked well.” Based on the reported results, “I believe that the CRISPR-Cas9 system can be extensively applied as a ...

The significance of this study lies in its paradigm-shifting insight—a novel mechanism in the ongoing battle between plants and viruses. This discovery not only represents a breakthrough in ...

What steps can researchers take to combat crop viruses? This is what a recent study published in Nucleic Acids Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany investigated a novel ...

Foundation Plant Services opened a new greenhouse to protect and propagate those plants in an environment safe from insects. The grapevine leafroll associated virus-3 detection underscores the need to ...