Task: Answer Verification
Input (English): Question: Is transgene-induced gene silencing affected by a change in ploidy level?
Answer: Our results in A. thaliana indicated that there is no effect of ploidy level on transgene-induced post-transcriptional gene silencing. Our findings that post-transcriptional mechanisms were equally effective in diploids and tetraploids supports the use of transgene-driven post-transcriptional gene silencing as a useful mechanism to modify gene expression in polyploid species.
Output (English): no