Editorial: RNAi Based Pesticides

Abstract

Development of new pesticide tools for farmers is needed to help increase food production. Approaches based on the use of nucleic acids triggering RNA silencing in plant pathogens and other pests in a sequence-specific manner are very promising and few preliminary works reported efficient protection of crops. Topically applied double stranded ribonucleic acids (dsRNAs)/small interfering ribonucleic acids (siRNAs) or spray-induced gene silencing (SIGS), also termed nontransformative RNAi technology to differentiate it from genetically modified (GM) plants designed to induce gene silencing through RNAi, are of particular interest.

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