EFFICIENT GENE SILENCING IN PLANTS USING SHORT DsRNA SEQUENCES
01563/KOLNP/2005 A (1563/KOLNP/2005)
Filed on 2005-08-08
Publication date 2006-10-27
Methods and means are provided to increase the efficiency of gene silencing when using dsRNA sequences which have a stem length shorther than about 200 basepairs by providing chimeric genes encoding such dsRNA sequences with a promoter recognized by DNA dependent RNA polymerase III comprising all cis-acting promoter elements which interact with DNA dependent RNA polymerase III. (FIG nil.)
Applicant
COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION Address of the Applicant: LIMESTONE AVENUE, CAMPBELL, AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY 2601, AUSTRALIA
International Information
Classification
A01H 1/00
Publication number
WO 04/073390