Browsing by Subject "RNA interference"
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(2022-06-13)Drought, insect pests, and diseases pose serious threats to maize production globally. Risks associated with drought are being addressed through the constant breeding of new drought-tolerant maize cultivars. However, under ...
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(2009-05-15)Variability of transgene expression levels resulting from gene silencing is considered as ahindrance to the successful application of plant genetic engineering. Towards alleviatinggene silencing, I decided to screen for ...
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(2022-07-25)Culex quinquefasciatus (Say) and Aedes albopictus (Skuse) are mosquito species of great importance due to their ability to transmit multiple pathogens that can cause mosquito-borne diseases, such as West Nile fever and ...
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Genomic Approaches to Study Innate Immune Response to Salmonella Enteritidis Infection in Chickens (2010-01-14)Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (SE) is one of the most common food-borne pathogens that cause human salmonellosis. Contamination of consumed poultry products continues to be a global threat to public health. Genetic ...
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(PLOS, 2015-04-30)Adaptation and survival of Trypanosoma brucei requires editing of mitochondrial mRNA by uridylate (U) insertion and deletion. Hundreds of small guide RNAs (gRNAs) direct the mRNA editing at over 3,000 sites. RNA editing ...
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(2010-01-20)Embryos derived by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) produce few pregnancies that result in a live, healthy offspring. This has largely been attributed to the aberrant reprogramming of the somatic cell DNA used for ...
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(2012-10-19)Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is considered a prototype for studying non-segmented negative-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses. Livestock are naturally infected by VSV, causing severe economic impact due to lack ...
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(2014-07-29)Meiotic silencing refers to the mechanism of silencing genes or chromosomes without a homologous counterpart (unpaired) during meiotic prophase I. Meiotic silencing has been described in several eukaryotes, including humans. ...