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RNA herbicide
> With the advent of new genetic technologies such as gene silencing and gene drive, efforts to develop additional management tools for weed management is gaining significant momentum. These technologies promise novel ways to develop sustainable weed control options because gene silencing can switch-off genes mediating adaptation (e.g. growth, herbicide resistance), and gene drive can be used to spread modified traits and to engineer wild populations with reduced fitness.
> Gene silencing can be achieved through topical applica- tion of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) which can alter the target organism to suppress phenotypic traits.
> Alternatively, gene drives can conceivably be engineered to spread particular traits (that could be modified through gene silencing or genome editing) among populations via distorted segregation.
Gene technologies in weed management: a technical feasibility analysis
Current Opinion in Insect Science
Volume 38, April 2020, Pages 6-14
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