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Functional analyses of viral RNA silencing suppressors and a strategy to screen antiviral compounds that target viral RNA silencing suppressors

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Profs. Chikara Masuta and Ichiro Uyeda (Hokkaido University) and Dr. Shinsuke Sano (Nippon Soda Co., Ltd) for their enthusiastic and insightful suggestions and generous support. I also express my sincere thanks to the members of the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Manipulation and the Laboratory of Pathogen–Plant Interactions at Hokkaido University.

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  1. Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita 9 Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan

    Hanako Shimura

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This article is an abstract of the paper that was to be presented by a winner of the Young Scientist Award at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Phytopathological Society of Japan in Fuchu.

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Shimura, H. Functional analyses of viral RNA silencing suppressors and a strategy to screen antiviral compounds that target viral RNA silencing suppressors. J Gen Plant Pathol 77, 361–363 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-011-0325-y

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