Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVerinoes discuss the potential for prion spread by plants, global circulation patterns of influenza virus, and the roles of Argonautes and a viral protein in RNA silencing in plants.
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- Prions in plants (Cell Rep) 11:35
- Global influenza virus circulation (Nature) 20:40
- Rough patch for plant RNA silencing (Lab Times) 29:50
- Role of Argonaute proteins in plant viral defense (PLoS Path) 32:15
- Rub-inoculation (YouTube) 42:45
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- Letters read on TWiV 343 4:00, 1:11:45
Timestamps by Jennifer. Thank you!
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Anyone who likes the visual summary of the paper or would like more pointers to recent literature on antiviral activity of plant AGOs should check out this new open access review article (also from the lab I work in): http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2015.06.013