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Nature 408, 150-151 (9 November 2000) | doi:10.1038/35041662
RNA silencing: Moving targets
James C. Carrington
Abstract
Viruses have evolved several strategies to attack plants, but the plants keep hitting back. So the viruses have upped the ante by stopping the plants' immune response from spreading to uninfected tissues.
Plants have developed a variety of weapons in their battle against viral invaders, one of the most elegant of which is 'RNA silencing'. The beauty of this immune response lies in its ability to adapt to all sorts of different viruses, because its specificity is dictated by the sequence of the viral genome itself.
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