Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a reverse genetics technique that is based on the RNA-mediated defense against viruses in plants. VIGS is a method of gene knockdown triggered by a replicating viral nucleic acid engineered to carry a host gene to be silenced. While there are a number of excellent VIGS vectors available for dicots, only a few are available for monocots. Here, we describe the detailed method of the use of a newly developed VIGS vector for rice, based on the rice-infecting Rice tungro bacilliform virus , a pararetrovirus with dsDNA genome. Using a method based on Agrobacterium -mediated injection of the VIGS construct at the meristematic region of young rice plants, silencing of target genes can be achieved and the silenced phenotype can be visualized in 3 weeks. © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013.
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Purkayastha, A., Sharma, S., & Dasgupta, I. (2013). Virus-induced gene silencing for rice using agroinoculation. Methods in Molecular Biology, 975, 33–45. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-278-0_3
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