Silencing of transcription factor encoding gene StTCP23 by small RNAs derived from the virulence modulating region of potato spindle tuber viroid is associated with symptom development in potato

• Sarina Bao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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• Robert A. Owens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Qinghua Sun,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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• Hui Song,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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• Yanan Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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• Andrew Leigh Eamens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Plant Science, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Newcastle, Australia

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• Hao Feng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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• Hongzhi Tian,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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• Ming-Bo Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, Australia

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• Ruofang Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: imupc_zhang@mail.imu.edu.cn

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9473-5360

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