Host-Induced Gene Silencing of the Target Gene in Fungal Cells Confers Effective Resistance to the Cotton Wilt Disease Pathogen Verticillium dahliae

Affiliations

• ¹ State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Microbiology, Beijing 100101, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
• ² State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Microbiology, Beijing 100101, China.
• ³ The Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Oasis Crop Disease, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832000, Xinjiang, China.
• ⁴ State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Microbiology, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: guohs@im.ac.cn.