Gene Silencing

Virus resistance and gene silencing in plants can be induced by simultaneous expression of sense and antisense RNA

1998 • 1,121 citations

RNA-directed de novo methylation of genomic sequences in plants

1994 • 929 citations

Systemic Spread of Sequence-Specific Transgene RNA Degradation in Plants Is Initiated by Localized Introduction of Ectopic Promoterless DNA

1998 • 694 citations

Expansions of transgene repeats cause heterochromatin formation and gene silencing in Drosophila

1994 • 506 citations

Transgene‐induced gene silencing in plants

1998 • 490 citations

The interface of sigma with core RNA polymerase is extensive, conserved, and functionally specialized

1999 • 419 citations

Transgene copy number can be positively or negatively associated with transgene expression

1993 • 404 citations

Chalcone synthase cosuppression phenotypes in petunia flowers: comparison of sense vs. antisense constructs and single-copy vs. complex T-DNA sequences

1996 • 384 citations

RNA-Mediated RNA Degradation and Chalcone Synthase A Silencing in Petunia

1997 • 308 citations

Epigenetic control of an endogenous gene family is revealed by a novel blue fluorescent mutant of arabidopsis

1995 • 242 citations

RNAi and double-strand RNA

1999 • 242 citations

Production of aberrant promoter transcripts contributes to methylation and silencing of unlinked homologous promoters in trans

1999 • 228 citations

The DNA methylation locusDDM1 is required for maintenance of gene silencing in Arabidopsis

1998 • 223 citations

Duplications That Suppress and Deletions That Restore Expression from a Chalcone Synthase Multigene Family.

1996 • 205 citations

De novomethylation and co-suppression induced by a cytoplasmically replicating plant RNA virus

1998 • 195 citations

An Inverted Repeat Triggers Cytosine Methylation of Identical Sequences in Arabidopsis

1999 • 187 citations

Epigenetic phenomena in filamentous fungi: useful paradigms or repeat-induced confusion?

1997 • 180 citations

Post‐transcriptional silencing of chalcone synthase in Petunia by inverted transgene repeats

1997 • 180 citations

Position-Dependent Methylation and Transcriptional Silencing of Transgenes in Inverted T-DNA Repeats: Implications for Posttranscriptional Silencing of Homologous Host Genes in Plants

1998 • 143 citations

Paramutation and related allelic interactions

1997 • 135 citations

A Gene Essential for De Novo Methylation and Development in Ascobolus Reveals a Novel Type of Eukaryotic DNA Methyltransferase Structure

1997 • 134 citations

A transgene with repeated DNA causes high frequency, post‐transcriptional suppression of ACC‐oxidase gene expression in tomato

1998 • 132 citations

Cytosine methylation at CG and CNG sites is not a prerequisite for the initiation of transcriptional gene silencing in plants, but it is required for its maintenance

1998 • 71 citations

Allelic interactions at the nivea locus of Antirrhinum.

1991 • 67 citations