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Baulcombe, David |
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University of Cambridge |
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Plant Biology |
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Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences |
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Baulcombe has characterized numerous plant genes conferring resistance against virus disease and pioneered the genetic engineering of virus resistance in plants. His work recognized the importance of gene silencing as a natural antiviral defense mechanism, and his discovery of short silencing RNA molecules has been seminal in the field of RNA interference. |
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