Research Accomplishment Reports 2011

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Developing MicroRNA Vectors for Gene Suppression in Agricultural Plants

G. Tang
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences

 

Non-Technical Summary

Our objective is to develop high throughput tools (miRNA vectors in this project) for functional genomics of crop plants. We not only provide the optimized miRNA vectors, but also develop a workable and simplified protocol to help users to fulfill their goal to silence any gene of interest in any crop. Now the framework for this has been established.