RNA interference
The 2006 prize went to [[Andrew Fire]] and [[Craig C. Mello]] "for their discovery of [[RNA interference]]—gene silencing by double-stranded [[RNA]]". Many of the discoveries credited by the committee to Fire and Mello, who studied RNA interference in "[[Caenorhabditis elegans]]", had been previously studied by plant biologists, and was suggested that at least one plant biologist, such as [[David Baulcombe]], should have been awarded a share of the prize.