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Fig. 7

From: An efficient and improved method for virus-induced gene silencing in sorghum

Fig. 7

Sorghum plants are resistant to BSMV infection. Sap from the BSMV inoculated N. benthamiana plants was used to rub inoculate Chenopodium, barley, and sorghum. a The Chenopodium plants showed lesions suggesting that the virus is infectious. b The white stripes in the systemic leaves of inoculated barley plants suggest successful infection by the virus at 22 °C. The yellowing of the BSMV:: ChlH infected plants indicate successful silencing of the ChlH gene in barley. c Sorghum plants kept at either 20 °C or 18 °C had no visible symptoms even 40 days after inoculation with BSMV. White stripes observed on leaves of both uninoculated control and BSMV inoculated sorghum plants is not due to virus infection. The experiment was performed with three barley, two Chenopodium, and 20 sorghum plants. The experiment was repeated twice. Similar results were observed in all the replicates of both the experiments

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