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Early work established that RNA-derived homology could suppress viral infection and transgene expression. Mechanistic studies then revealed a diversified plant silencing system involving Dicer-like proteins, Argonautes, RNA-dependent RNA polymerases, systemic movement, and RNA-directed DNA methylation. In parallel, RNAi moved into crop design, enabling targeted modification of yield, fiber quality, flowering, disease resistance, allergenicity, fertility, plant architecture, lignin content, nutrient composition, and pest resistance across diverse species. Importantly, RNAi is not merely a historical precursor to genome editing. It retains distinct value because it can tune gene dosage, silence multigene families, uncover compensatory network responses, and perturb upstream regulatory nodes, such as phytochrome RNAi in cotton, where partial suppression simultaneously improves several negatively correlated traits. Most recently, host-induced silencing, spray-induced dsRNA, nanocarrier delivery, and CRISPR-associated RNA tools have repositioned RNAi as a versatile breeding platform. The future lies in convergence with genome editing, using pangenome-informed, allele-aware target design and combined RNAi-editing pipelines. The lesson learned is that useful crop engineering often requires rebalancing endogenous networks rather than permanent gene knockout. In this review, the historical developmental phases are used carefully: the formal molecular term RNA interference emerged in the late 1990s, while earlier plant work on antiviral resistance, co-suppression and post-transcriptional gene silencing anticipated the same sequence-guided logic. 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