Definitions for "Silencing"
a mechanism which higher plants and animals have evolved to defend against viral infection in addition to regulation of gene expression for growth and development
an antiviral defense and that viruses have evolved to counteract it
an anti-viral defense
nonfunctionalization
an important means of controlling gene expression and suppressing aberrant DNA recombination
a remarkable type of gene regulation based on sequence-specific targeting and degradation of RNA
a useful method for the functional analysis of gene families in rice and other plants
a natural mechanism of organisms to control the production of specific target proteins
Keywords:  research, field, new
a new field of research that