RNA interference and CRISPR: Promising approaches to better understand and control citrus pathogens

Autor(es)

Goulin, Eduardo Henrique ^[1] ; Galdeano, Diogo Manzano ^[1] ; Granato, Lais Moreira ^[1] ; Matsumura, Emilyn Emy ^[2] ; Durigan Dalio, Ronaldo Jose ^[1] ; Machado, Marcos Antonio ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Ctr Citricultura Sylvio Moreira IAC, Rodovia Anhanguera, Km 158, Cordeiropolis, SP - Brazil

^[2] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Plant Pathol, Davis, CA 95616 - USA

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; v. 226, p. 1-9, 2019.
• Citações Web of Science: 2

Resumo

Citrus crops have great economic importance worldwide. However, citrus production faces many diseases caused by different pathogens, such as bacteria, oomycetes, fungi and viruses. To overcome important plant diseases in general, new technologies have been developed and applied to crop protection, including RNA interference (RNAi) and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems. RNAi has been demonstrated to be a powerful tool for application in plant defence mechanisms against different pathogens as well as their respective vectors, and CRISPR/Cas system has become widely used in gene editing or reprogramming or knocking out any chosen DNA/RNA sequence. In this article, we provide an overview of the use of RNAi and CRISPR/Cas technologies in management strategies to control several plants diseases, and we discuss how these strategies can be potentially used against citrus pathogens. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 12/23381-7 - Avaliação de transcriptomas e de genes candidatos potenciais para uso em sistema de RNAi em fungos patogênicos de citros
• Beneficiário: Eduardo Henrique Goulin
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado