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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2024

Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Mediate SiRNA Delivery for Long-Term Multi-Gene Silencing in Intact Plants.

Yao Cai, Zhujiang Liu, Hang Wang, Huan Meng, Yuhong Cao

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yao CaiKey Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
Zhujiang LiuKey Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
Hang WangKey Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
Huan MengKey Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
Yuhong CaoKey Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8065-4634
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China E0E71Z11
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA interference (RNAi) is a powerful tool for understanding and manipulating signaling pathways in plant science, potentially facilitating the accelerated development of novel plant traits and crop yield improvement. The common strategy for delivering siRNA into intact plants using agrobacterium or viruses is complicated and time-consuming, limiting the application of RNAi in plant research. Here, a novel delivery method based on mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) is reported, which allows for the efficient delivery of siRNA into mature plant leaves via topical application without the aid of mechanical forces, achieving transient gene knockdown with up to 98% silencing efficiency at the molecular level. In addition, this method is nontoxic to plant leaves, enabling the repeated delivery of siRNA for long-term silencing. White spots and yellowing phenotypes are observed after spraying the MSN-siRNA complex targeted at phytoene desaturase and magnesium chelatase genes. After high light treatment, photobleaching phenotypes are also observed by spraying MSNs-siRNA targeted at genes into the Photosystem II repair cycle. Furthermore, the study demonstrated that MSNs can simultaneously silence multiple genes. The results suggest that MSN-mediated siRNA delivery is an effective tool for long-term multi-gene silencing, with great potential for application in plant functional genomic analyses and crop improvement.

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NanoparticlesSilicon DioxideGene SilencingPlantsRNA InterferenceRNA, Small InterferingRNA, Small InterferingSilicon Dioxidegene silencingmesoporous silica nanoparticlesplant biotechnologysiRNA delivery

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PMID38145358
PMCPMC10916655
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