Recent Progress on Nanocarriers for Topical-Mediated RNAi Strategies for Crop Protection-A Review.

ABSTRACT: To fulfil the growing needs of the global population, sustainability in food production must be ensured. Insect pests and pathogens are primarily responsible for one-third of food losses and harmful synthetic pesticides have been applied to protect crops from these pests and other pathogens such as viruses and fungi. An alternative pathogen control mechanism that is more "friendly" to the environment can be developed by externally applying double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) to suppress gene expression. However, the use of dsRNA sprays in open fields is complicated with respect to variable efficiencies in the dsRNA delivery, and the stability of the dsRNA on and in the plants, and because the mechanisms of gene silencing may differ between plants and between different pathogen targets. Thus, nan

SUBMITTER: Mat Jalaluddin NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10054734 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature