Expression of RNA-Interference/Antisense Transgenes by the Cognate Promoters of Target Genes Is a Better Gene-Silencing Strategy to Study Gene Functions in Rice

Jing Li; Dagang Jiang; Hai Zhou; Feng Li; Jiawei Yang; Laifa Hong; Xiao Fu; Zhibin Li; Zhenlan Liu; Jianming Li; Chuxiong Zhuang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017444

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Expression of RNA-Interference/Antisense Transgenes by the Cognate Promoters of Target Genes Is a Better Gene-Silencing Strategy to Study Gene Functions in Rice

Jing Li ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Li, Dagang Jiang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology, Education Department of Guangdong Province, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Dagang Jiang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Li, Dagang Jiang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology, Education Department of Guangdong Province, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Hai Zhou,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology, Education Department of Guangdong Province, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Feng Li,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology, Education Department of Guangdong Province, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Jiawei Yang,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology, Education Department of Guangdong Province, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Laifa Hong,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology, Education Department of Guangdong Province, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Xiao Fu,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology, Education Department of Guangdong Province, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Zhibin Li,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology, Education Department of Guangdong Province, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Zhenlan Liu,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology, Education Department of Guangdong Province, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Jianming Li,

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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Chuxiong Zhuang

* E-mail: zhuangcx@scau.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology, Education Department of Guangdong Province, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Expression of RNA-Interference/Antisense Transgenes by the Cognate Promoters of Target Genes Is a Better Gene-Silencing Strategy to Study Gene Functions in Rice

Jing Li,
Dagang Jiang,
Hai Zhou,
Feng Li,
Jiawei Yang,
Laifa Hong,
Xiao Fu,
Zhibin Li,
Zhenlan Liu,
Jianming Li

Published: March 3, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017444

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