The Trojan Horse of the Plant Kingdom.

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Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA; Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. Electronic address:

Published: July 2018

The advent of host-induced gene silencing (HIGS) technology for the development of pathogen-resistant cultivars led to the discovery of cross-kingdom RNA interference. In a recent Science paper, Cai et al. (2018) discovered that plant extracellular vesicles act as Trojan horses to deliver small RNAs into fungi to fight infection.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2018.06.015DOI Listing

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