Plant gene product

With respect to targeting viral gene products expressed in virus-infected cells, it should be considered that infectious mammalian viruses may express inhibitors of RNAi similar to plant viruses. 

A reduction in, or the prevention of, flavonoid biosynthesis has been demonstrated many times, and in several species, by inhibiting production of a single flavonoid biosynthetic enzyme. This approach is reviewed in Refs. 76, 327, and examples are listed in Table 3.4. It is worth noting that the first published accounts of antisense or sense RNA inhibition of plant gene expression involved CFfS in P. hybrida... 

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