Silencing tomato genes with the spray (IMAGE)

RIKEN

Silencing tomato genes with the spray

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Evidence that the system can be used to silence genes in tomatoes. The peptide carrier (top), interfering RNA (middle), or the complex containing both (bottom) were sprayed on a tomato plant's leaves. The tomato plant was designed to overexpress a green fluorescent protein. When the RNA/CPP complex was used, green fluorescence was absent, indicating that the gene driving expression of green fluorescent protein was silenced.

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