Foreword ........................................................ v
Preface ....................................................... vii
List of Contributors ........................................... xi
1 Acute RNA Interference for Basic Research and Therapy ........ 1
Federico Calegari
2 Deciphering post-transcriptional Gene Silencing Pathways
Through Genetic Screens ..................................... 17
Vincent Jauvion, Allison C. Mallory and Hervé Vaucheret
3 Implications of miRNA-directed Gene Silencing in Cancer ..... 47
Duncan Ayers
4 MicroRNA Interference: Concept and Technologies ............. 61
Zhiguo Wang and Xiaobin Luo
5 Silencing the Disease Messengers: Progress and Prospects
in Developing Nucleic Acid based Therapeutics ............... 85
Rakha H. Das and Nandini Verma
6 Artificial MicroRNA: A Third Generation RNAi Technology .... 113
Pranjal Yadava
7 Pectin Methylesterase Enhances Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus
P19 RNA Silencing Suppressor Effects ....................... 125
Tatiana V. Komarova, Vitaly Citovsky and Yuri L. Dorokhov
8 MicroRNAs: A New Paradigm For Gene Regulation .............. 135
Luciana dos Reis Vasques, Cláudia Gasque Schoof and Eder
Leite da Silva Botelho
9 A RNAi-based Genome-wide Screen to Discover Genes
Involved in Resistance to Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus
(TYLCV) in Tomato ......................................... 155
Henryk Czosnek, Dagan Sade, Rena Gorovits, Favi Vidavski,
Hila Beeri, Iris Sobol and Assaf Eybishtz
10 RNAi for Crop Improvement .................................. 177
Imran Amin, Muhammad Saeed, Shahid Mansoor and Rob
W. Briddon
11 RNA Silencing and Viral Encoded Silencing Suppressors ...... 209
Masato Ikegami, Tatsuya Kon and Pradeep Sharma
12 Gene Silencing and its Applications in Plants .............. 241
S. Abdolhamid Angaj and Somayeh Darvishani
13 Use of RNAi Technology for Control of Rice Viruses ......... 253
Indranil Dasgupta
14 Use of RNAi Technology in Medicinal Plants ................. 265
Pravej Alam, Athar Ali, Mather Ali Khan and M.Z. Abdin
15 RNA Interference and Wheat Functional Genomics ............. 285
Pradeep Sharma and Rajender Singh
16 Biogenesis, Processing and Function of miRNA in Plants
and Animals ................................................ 309
Sakshi Issar and R.K. Gaur
17 RNA Interference in Fungi .................................. 327
B.M. Bashyal and Rashmi Aggarwal
18 Virulence of Fusarium spp. Causing Wilt Disease of Guava
with Special Reference to RNAi ............................. 335
V.K. Gupta, P.K. Jain, A. Manimaran, K.M. Turner,
A. O'Donovan and M. Tuohy
19 RNA Interference—Interactomics and Therapeutics ............ 347
Sayak Ganguli and Abhijit Datta
Index ......................................................... 357
Color Plate Section ........................................... 363
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