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Nature Genetics 38, 138 - 139 (2006)
doi:10.1038/ng0206-138

Defense and counterdefense in the plant world

Peter M Waterhouse

Peter M. Waterhouse is at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia. peter.waterhouse@csiro.au

An important role of RNA interference (RNAi)-like pathways in plants is defense against viral infection. Viruses can overcome this defense by expressing proteins that suppress the pathway. A new study of Agrobacterium tumefaciens infection reveals that this plant pathogen, although a bacterium, also induces and then suppresses the host RNAi response.

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