Trans-Kingdom Small RNAs Target <i>Verticillium dahliae</i> Genes During Plant-Microbe Interaction (IMAGE)

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Trans-Kingdom Small RNAs Target <i>Verticillium dahliae</i> Genes During Plant-Microbe Interaction

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Trans-kingdom small RNAs target Verticillium dahliae genes during plant-microbe interaction. The soil-borne fungal pathogen V. dahliae (blue in the lower figure) develops infectious structure "hyphopodiumâ" (Transmission electron microscopy image in the lower figure on the right) to penetrate and infects cotton roots and colonizes plant vascular tissues (red tubes in the lower figure). Small RNAs (green lines in the figure on the right) transmit from the plant cell to the colonized hyphae (blue in the figure on the right), targeting and "cutting" fungal gene transcripts (purple lines in the figure on the right).

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