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Name: Gaurav Bansal Age: 28 Years Educational Qualifications
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The impact of spray-induced gene silencing on cereal phyllosphere microbiota
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Environmental Microbiomevolume 20, Article number: 1 () Cite this article
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Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a major disease affecting cereal crops including wheat, barley, rye, oats and maize. Its predominant causal agent is the ascomycete fungus Fusarium graminearum, which infects the spikes and thereby reduces grain yield and quality. The frequency and severity of FHB epidemics has increased in recent years, threatening global food security. Spray-induced gene silencing (SIGS) is an alternative technique for tackling this devastating disease through foliar spraying with exogenous double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) to silence specific pathogen genes via RNA interference. This has the advantage of avoiding transgenic approaches, but several aspects of the technology require further development to