Crops Protected With Double-Stranded RNA (3 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Crops Protected With Double-Stranded RNA (3 of 4)

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A Colorado potato beetle is eating a potato leaf. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 27, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, Jiang Zhang at the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie in Potsdam-Golm, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Full crop protection from an insect pest by expression of long double-stranded RNAs in plastids."

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[Credit: MPI for Chemical Ecology and MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology]

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