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Recent advances in tomato functional genomics: utilization of VIGS

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Title Recent advances in tomato functional genomics: utilization of VIGS
 
Creator Sahu, Pranav Pankaj
Puranik, Swati
Khan, Moinuddin
Prasad, Manoj
 
Subject Tomato
Virus-induced gene silencing
Functional genomics
 
Description Accepted date: 17 May 2012
Tomato unquestionably occupies a significant position in world vegetable production owing to its world-wide consumption. The tomato genome sequencing efforts being recently concluded, it becomes more imperative to recognize important functional genes from this treasure of generated information for improving tomato yield. While much progress has been made in conventional tomato breeding, post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) offers an alternative approach for advancement of tomato functional genomics. In particular, virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is increasingly being used as rapid, reliable, and lucrative screening strategy to elucidate gene function. In this review, we focus on the recent advancement made through exploiting the potential of this technique for manipulating different agronomically important traits in tomato by discussing several case studies.
Grateful thanks are due to the Director, National
Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India for
providing facilities. The authors work in this area was supported by the
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. Mr Pranav Pankaj
Sahu and Ms Swati Puranik acknowledge the award of Senior Research Fellowship from NIPGR and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, respectively. We acknowledge Dr. Swarup
K Parida of NIPGR for helpful discussions. We would like to thank all
the reviewers for their constructive comments.
 
Date 2015-10-28T11:30:00Z
2015-10-28T11:30:00Z
2012
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Protoplasma, 249(4): 1017-1027
1615-6102
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00709-012-0421-7
http://172.16.0.77:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/277
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher Springer