Philip L Walker, Dylan J Ziegler, Shayna Giesbrecht, Austein McLoughlin, Joey Wan, Deirdre Khan, Vanessa Hoi, Steve Whyard, Mark F Belmonte
The causative agent of white mold, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, is capable of infecting over 600 plant species and is responsible for significant crop losses across the globe. Control is currently dependent on broad-spectrum chemical agents that can negatively impact the agroecological environment, presenting a need to develop alternative control measures. In this study, we developed transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana (AT1703) expressing hairpin (hp)RNA to silence S. sclerotiorum ABHYDROLASE-3 and slow infection through host induced gene silencing (HIGS)...
April 20, 2023: Scientific Reports