Meenu Singla-Rastogi (@msr20.bsky.social)

Plants have a secret weapon against certain bacteria! Arabidopsis plants engineered to produce tiny RNA molecules can target and suppress bacterial genes, specifically those making the bacteria more infectious. These RNA molecules, found outside plant cells, come in three forms: protein-bound, en...

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Vesicular and non-vesicular extracellular small RNAs direct gene silencing in a plant-interacting bacterium. Published in Nature communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57908-1