Volume : II, Issue : X, October - 2013

Role of Gene Silencing In Agriculture

Dipali B. Borkar, Vishal L. Bagde

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Gene silencing play role of suppressing gene expression in plants. The ability of gene silencing has produced transgenic plants able to switch off endogenous genes and invading nucleic acids. Mechanism for gene silencing through at the transcriptional level (TGS) or at the post–transcriptional level (PTGS). It play a key role in many essential cellular processes. RNA interference (RNAi) is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism that causes sequence specific gene silencing. Though biologically evolved to mediate resistance to both endogenous and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids and to regulate the expression of protein coding genes, it is being successfully used as a tool for functional genomics. This powerful Agricultural tool has provided plant eeders and researchers with great opportunity to accelerate eeding programs and developmental studies in agriculture.

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Dipali B. Borkar, Vishal L. Bagde / Role of Gene Silencing In Agriculture / International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.2, Issue.10 October 2013

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