Silence is Golden – The Power of siRNAs

What is siRNA? Short interfering RNAs, sometimes referred to as silencing RNAs or siRNA for short, are a common tool to induce transitory suppression of coding genes. In 1928, the Plant Pathology head at Virginia Tech, SA Wingard, noticed that as tobacco plants infected with ringspot virus continued to grow, their outer leaves showed signs 

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