RNAi publications
The following publications detail the work involved in the development of CSIRO’s RNAi.
Book chapters
Tiwari S, Zhang R, Dennis ES, Wang MB, 2008, ‘RNA silencing and plant defence against viral and non-viral pathogens’, In: RNA Interference Research Progress, Lyland RT, Browning IB(eds).
Curtin SJ, Wang MB, Watson JM, Roffey P, Blanchard CL, Waterhouse PM, 2006, ‘RNA silencing and its application in functional genomics’, In: Rice Functional Genomics, Narayana Upadhyaya (ed).
Wang MB, Rezaian A, Watson JM, Waterhouse PM, Metzlaff M, 2006, ‘Understanding and exploiting RNA silencing-mediated antiviral defense in plants’, In: Floriculture, Ornamental and Plant Biotechnology, Volume III, Jaime Teixeira da Silva (ed), Global science Books, UK.
Wang MB, Finnegan EJ, Waterhouse PM, 2004, ‘PTGS – plant defence and counter-defensive strategy of viruses’, In: Viruses and Virus Diseases of Poaceae, Lapierre H, Signoret P (eds), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Versailles, France, pp.172-179.
Key publications
Eamens A, Wang MB, Smith NA, Waterhouse PM, 2008, ‘RNA silencing in plants: yesterday, today and tomorrow’, Plant Physiology, 147: 456-468.
Fusaro A, Matthew L, Curtin S, Smith NA, Dedic J, Watson J, Wang MB, Brosnan C, Carrol B, Waterhouse PM, 2006, ‘RNAi-incuding hairpin RNAs in plants act through the viral defense pathway’, EMBO Reports, 7: 1168-1175.
Wang MB, Metzlaff M, 2005, ‘RNA silencing and antiviral defense in plants’, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 8: 216-222.
Wang MB, Bian XY, Wu LM, Liu LX, Smith NA, Isenegger D, Wu RM, Masuta C, Vance VB, Watson JM, Rezaian A, Dennis ES, Waterhouse PM, 2004, ‘On the role of RNA silencing in the pathogenicity and evolution of viroids and viral satellites’, Proc. National Academy of Sciences USA, 101: 3275-3280.
Finnegan EJ, Margis R, Waterhouse PM, 2003, ‘Posttranscriptional gene silencing is not compromised in the Arabidopsis CARPEL FACTORY (DICER-LIKE1) mutant, a homolog of Dicer-1 from Drosophila’, Current Biology, 13: 236-240.
Wang MB, Waterhouse PM, 2002, ‘Applications of gene silencing in plants’, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 5: 146-150.
Wang MB, Wesley V, Finnegan EJ, Smith NA, Waterhouse PM, 2001, ‘Replicating Satellite RNA induces sequence-specific DNA methylation and truncated transcripts in plants’, RNA, 7: 16-28.
Waterhouse PM, Wang MB, Lough T, 2001, ‘Gene silencing as an adaptive defense against viruses’, Nature, 411: 834-842.
Wesley SV, Helliwell CA, Smith NA, Wang MB, Rouse DT, Liu Q, Gooding PS, Singh SP, Abbott D, Stoutjesdijk PA, Robinson SP, Gleave AP, Green AG, Waterhouse PM, 2001, ‘Construct design for efficient, effective and high-throughput gene silencing in plants’, The Plant Journal, 27: 581-590.
Smith NA, Surinder PS, Wang MB, Stoutjesdijk PA, Green AG, Waterhouse PM, 2000, ‘Total silencing by intron-spliced hairpin RNAs’, Nature, 407: 319-320.
Wang MB, Abbot DC, Waterhouse PM, 2000, ‘A single copy of a virus-derived transgene encoding hairpin RNA gives immunity to barley yellow dwarf virus’, Molecular Plant Pathology, 1: 341-350.
Wang MB, Waterhouse PM, 2000, ‘High efficiency silencing of a beta-glucuronidase gene in rice is correlated with repetitive transgene structure but is independent of DNA methylation’, Plant Molecular Biology, 43: 67-82.
Waterhouse PM, Smith NA, Wang MB, 1999, ‘Virus resistance and gene silencing: killing the messenger’, Trends in Plant Science, 4: 452-458.
Waterhouse PM, Graham MW, Wang MB, 1998, ‘Virus resistance and gene silencing in plants can be induced by simultaneous expression of sense and antisense RNA’, Proc. National Academy of Sciences USA, 95: 13959-13964.
Reviews
Wang MB, Dennis ES, 2009, ‘SPT5-like, a new component in plant RdDM’, EMBO Reports, 10: 573-575.
Gordon KH, Waterhouse PM, 2007, ‘RNAi for insect-proof plants’, Nature Biotechnology, 25: 1231-1232.
Gordon KH, Waterhouse PM, 2006, ‘Small RNA viruses of insects: expression in plants and RNA silencing’, Adv Virus Res, 68: 459-502.
Waterhouse PM, 2006, ‘Defense and counterdefense in the plant world’, Nature Genetics, 38:138-139.
Waterhouse PM, Fusaro AF, 2006, ‘Plant science. Viruses face a double defense by plant small RNAs’, Science, 313: 54-55.
Millar AA, Waterhouse PM, 2005, ‘Plant and animal microRNAs: similarities and differences’, Funct Integr Genomics, 5: 129-135.
Wang MB, Metzlaff M, 2005, ‘RNA silencing and antiviral defense in plants’, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 8: 216-222.
Watson JM, Fusaro AF, Wang MB, Waterhouse PM, 2005, ‘RNA silencing platforms in plants’, FEBS Letters, 579: 5982-5987.
Waterhouse PM, Helliwell CA, 2003, ‘Exploring plant genomes by RNA-induced gene silencing’, Nature Reviews Genetics, 4: 29-38.
Wang MB, Waterhouse PM, 2002, ‘Applications of gene silencing in plants’, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 5: 146-150.
Finnegan EJ, Wang MB, Waterhouse PM, 2001, ‘Gene silencing: fleshing out the bones’, Current Biology, 11: R99-R102.
Miller WA, Waterhouse PM, Brown JW, Browning KS, 2001, ‘The RNA world in plants: post-transcriptional control III’, Plant Cell, 13: 1710-1717.
Waterhouse PM, Wang MB, Finnegan EJ, 2001, ‘The role of short RNAs in gene silencing’, Trends in Plant Science, 6: 297-301.
Waterhouse PM, Wang MB, Lough T, 2001, ‘Gene silencing as an adaptive defense against viruses’, Nature, 411: 834-842.
Waterhouse PM, Smith NA, Wang MB, 1999, ‘Virus resistance and gene silencing: killing the messenger’, Trends in Plant Science, 4: 452-458.
Original papers
Pase L, Layton JE, Kloosterman WP, Carradice D, Waterhouse PM, Lieschke GJ, 2009, ‘miR-451 regulates zebrafish erythroid maturation in vivo via its target gata2′, Blood, 113: 1794-1804.
Schwind N, Zwiebel M, Itaya A, Ding B, Wang MB, Krczal G, Wassenegger M, 2009, ‘RNAi-mediated resistance to Potato spindle tuber viroid in transgenic tomato expressing a viroid hairpin RNA construct’, Molecular Plant Pathology, 10: 459-469.
Curtin SJ, Watson JM, Smith NA, Eamens AL, Blanchard CL, Waterhouse PM, 2008, ‘The roles of plant dsRNA-binding proteins in RNAi-like pathways’, FEBS Letters, 582: 2753-2760.
Wang L, Luo YZ, Zhang L, Jiao XM, Wang MB, Fan YL, 2008, ‘Rolling circle amplification-mediated hairpin RNA (RMHR) libraries construction in plants’, Nucleic Acids Research, 36: e149.
Wang L, Smith NA, Dennis ES. Waterhouse PM, Unrau PJ, Wang MB, 2008, ‘Synthesis of complementary RNA by RNA-dependent RNA polymerases in plant extracts is independent of an RNA primer’, Functional Plant Biology, 35: 1091-1099.
Wang MB, Helliwell CA, Wu LM, Waterhouse PM, Peacock WJ, Dennis ES, 2008, ‘Hairpin RNAs derived from RNA polymerase II and polymerase III promoter-directed transgenes are processed differently in plants’, RNA, 14: 903-913.
Brosnan CA, Mitter N, Christie M, Smith NA, Waterhouse PM, Carroll BJ, 2007, ‘Nuclear gene silencing directs reception of long-distance mRNA silencing in Arabidopsis‘, Proc. National Academy of Sciences USA, 104: 14741-14746.
Wang L, Wang MB, Tu JX, Helliwell CA, Waterhouse PM, Dennis ES, Fu TD, Fan YL, 2007, ‘Cloning and characterization of microRNAs from Brassica napus‘, FEBS Letters, 581: 3848-3856.
Margis R, Fusaro AF, Smith NA, Curtin SJ, Watson JM, Finnegan EJ, Waterhouse PM, 2006, ‘The evolution and diversification of Dicers in plants’, FEBS Letters, 580: 2442-2450.
Chen S, Helliwell CA, Wu LM, Dennis ES, Upadhyaya N, Zhang R, Waterhouse PM, Wang MB, 2005, ‘A novel T-DNA vector design conducive for selection of transgenic lines with simple integration and stable transgene expression’, Functional Plant Biology, 32: 671-681.
Ebhardt HA, Thi EP, Wang MB, Unrau PJ, 2005, ‘Extensive 3′ modification of plant small RNAs is modulated by helper component-proteinase expression’, Proc. National Academy of Sciences USA, 102: 13398-13403.
Helliwell CA, Waterhouse PM, 2005, ‘Constructs and methods for hairpin RNA-mediated gene silencing in plants’, Methods in Enzymology, 392: 24-35.
Wesley V, Helliwell CA, Wang MB, Waterhouse PM, 2004, ‘Posttranscriptional gene silencing in plants’, Methods in Molecular Biology, 265: 117-130.