FIGURE 1.

Comprehensive strategy linking large scale RNA sequencing experiments with crop protection using RNA interference. Dual sequencing and laser microdissection can overcome many of the limitations of traditional sequencing experiments and greatly improve our understanding of plant–fungal pathosystems. Robust bioinformatics strategies to identify critical regulators of plant defense and fungal pathogenesis can then be directly integrated with crop improvement strategies as well as RNA interference applications for crop protection from pathogenic fungi.