the Cultivation Fund of the Key Scientific and Technical Innovation Project, Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 705025); the National Key Basic Research and Developmenl Program (Grant No. 2006CBI01903); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos, 30301H94 and 30530520).
Virus-induced gene silencing offers a powerful reverse-genetic tool for the study of gene function in plants. We have previously reported ef- fective gene silencing of plant genes using a viral satellite DNA associate...
A novel type of circular single-stranded satellite DNA, known as DNAb, was recently characterized and demonstrated to be associated with monopartite begomovi-ruses. DNAb was essential for induction of characteristic s...