Regulation of Plant Development by Small RNAs

了解小RNA的作用及其途径是一个新的研究领域，它正在并将继续为多细胞生物如何在基因组水平上调节基因表达提供深刻的见解。这一领域的研究已经导致了RNA干扰技术，通过它几乎可以关闭任何基因，并有相当大的潜力出现其他基因沉默和特征修改技术。该项目将深入了解基本的生物过程，预计这些过程将在农业和生物技术方面产生应用。它将保持和加强澳大利亚在这一领域的地位。

Understanding the roles of small RNAs and their pathways is a new field of research that is giving, and will continue to give profound insights into how multicellular organisms regulate gene expression at a genomic level. Research in this area has already led to RNA interference technology, by which almost any gene can be switched off, and there is considerable potential for other gene silencing and trait modification technologies to emerge. The project will yield insights into fundamental biological processes which are expected to engender applications in agriculture and biotechnology. It will maintain and enhance Australia's position in this area.