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In 1999, plant scientists studying PTGS provided a crucial clue when they detected small (approximately 25 nucleotide-long) RNAs corresponding to silenced target genes in transgenic plants (Hamilton and Baulcombe 1999).
(1997) found that silenced class II rootstocks were able to silence class I scions.
Some pictures are allowed to speak their thousand words because we like what they have to say; some pictures are silenced.
The RNA got to the liver, silenced Fas, and protected the mice from hepatitis.
Surprisingly, only top grafting resulted in scions that were systemically silenced by a rootstock signal.