Chapter title |
Recent Advances in Plant Gene Silencing Methods
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Book title |
Plant Gene Silencing
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2022
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-0716-1875-2_1 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-07-161874-5, 978-1-07-161875-2
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Authors |
Pandey, Prachi, Mysore, Kirankumar S, Senthil-Kumar, Muthappa, Mysore, Kirankumar S., Prachi Pandey, Kirankumar S. Mysore, Muthappa Senthil-Kumar |
Abstract |
With the increasing understanding of fundamentals of gene silencing pathways in plants, various tools and techniques for downregulating the expression of a target gene have been developed across multiple plant species. This chapter provides an insight into the molecular mechanisms of gene silencing and highlights the advancements in various gene silencing approaches. The prominent aspects of different gene silencing methods, their advantages and disadvantages have been discussed. A succinct discussion on the newly emerged microRNA-based technologies like microRNA-induced gene silencing (MIGS) and microRNA-mediated virus-induced gene silencing (MIR-VIGS) are also presented. We have also discussed the gene-editing system like CRISPR-Cas. The prominent bottlenecks in gene silencing methods are the off-target effects and lack of universal applicability. However, the tremendous growth in understanding of this field reflects the potentials for improvements in the currently available approaches and the development of new widely applicable methods for easy, fast, and efficient functional characterization of plant genes. |
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