New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in ...

The extraction of high‐quality RNA from plant tissues is a critical prerequisite for gene expression studies and other molecular analyses. Over the past decades, researchers have refined methods to ...

What steps can researchers take to combat crop viruses? This is what a recent study published in Nucleic Acids Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany investigated a novel ...

Individually tailored RNA or DNA-based molecules are able to reliably fight off viral infections in plants, according to a new study. The researchers were able to fend off a common virus using the new ...

The past couple of years have not been good ones for honeybees. For reasons unknown, honeybee colonies around the globe have experienced Colony Collapse Disorder. With Colony Collapse Disorder 30 - 90 ...

The venture capital firm Flagship Pioneering has publicly launched the start-up Terrana Biosciences, which is using RNA to program plants to resist pests and disease. With a $50 million initial ...

Starting from whole plant tissues and dissociating cells (protoplasts) or nuclei from the tissue, RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis by reverse transcription, library preparation followed by sequencing, ...

During a viral infection, the plant’s cells are hijacked by the virus to multiply itself. Key products of this process are viral RNA molecules that serve as blueprints for the production of proteins. ...