Exploring plant genomes by RNA-induced gene silencing

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-38

  Waterhouse, Peter M ^a   Helliwell, Christopher A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RICE; RNA DEGRADATION; TRANSGENE;

FORECASTING; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, PLANT; PLANT VIRUSES; PLANTS; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYOPHYTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0037227689     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg982     Document Type: Review

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