Question
(a) Write the scientific name of the nematode that infests the tobacco plants and the part that it infests.(b) How is Agrobacterium used to protect tobacco plant from this attack ?
Answer :
(a)
• Meloidegyne incognitia
• Roots
(b) By using Agrobacterium vector, Nematode specific genes were introduced into host plant, introduction of DNA produced both sense and anti-sense RNA in the host cells these two RNAs being complementary to each other form a double stranded RNA (ds RNA), that initiated RNAi and thus silenced the specific mRNA of the nematode hence parasite could not survive in host.
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