Silencing efficiency of dsRNA fragments targeting Fusarium graminearum TRI6 and patterns of small interfering RNA associated with reduced virulence and mycotoxin production

• Thomas Baldwin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility, USDA-ARS, Aberdeen, Idaho, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5232-4504

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• Emir Islamovic,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America

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• Kathy Klos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility, USDA-ARS, Aberdeen, Idaho, United States of America

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• Paul Schwartz,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States of America

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• James Gillespie,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States of America

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• Samuel Hunter,

  Roles Software, Validation

  Affiliation iBEST, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States of America

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• Phil Bregitzer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: phil.bregitzer@ars.usda.gov

  Affiliation National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility, USDA-ARS, Aberdeen, Idaho, United States of America

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