Tobacco Rattle Virus (TRV) based Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Abstract

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a fast and efficient functional genomics tool (Becker and Lange, 2009; Baulcombe, 1999) and a method for rapid silencing of plant genes in order to discover their function (Becker and Lange, 2009; Purkayastha and Dasgupta, 2009). Virusinduced gene silencing (VIGS) offers an attractive and quick alternative for knocking out expression of a gene without the need to genetically transform the plant. VIGS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 10 Number 02 (2021) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com