Development of cotton plants with reduced susceptibility to Meloidogyne incognita through RNA interference approach.

LEMES, S. V. da R.; CAVALCANTE, R. dos S.; SÁ, M. E. L. de; MORGANTE, C. V.; SA, M. F. G. de

Development of cotton plants with reduced susceptibility to Meloidogyne incognita through RNA interference approach.

Autores

LEMES, S. V. da R.

CAVALCANTE, R. dos S.

SÁ, M. E. L. de

MORGANTE, C. V.

SA, M. F. G. de

Descripción

In this work, we used a biotechnological approach based on RNA interference (RNAi) to silence an essential gene of Meloidogyne incognita to develop a RKN-tolerant cotton plant. It was previously demonstrated that the knockdown of the pre-mRNA splicing factor (SF) gene was lethal to the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.