Plant Defense Mechanism Picks Up Enemy's Telltale (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Plant Defense Mechanism Picks Up Enemy's Telltale

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The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana's immune system, called post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), defends against invaders by recognizing and attacking foreign RNAs, which are distinguished by their lack of a poly(A) tail.

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2017 Kyungmin Baeg, Hiro-oki Iwakawa, and Yukihide Tomari.

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