Silencing of Agrobacterium tumefaciens oncogenes ipt and iaaM induces resistance to crown gall disease in plum but not in apricot.

RNAi-mediated gene silencing can be used for inducing crown gall resistance in plum rootstocks. These could be used to graft non-genetically modified commercial fruit cultivars reducing, or eliminating, the disease symptoms. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry.