Posttranscriptional gene silencing is not compromised in the Arabidopsis CARPEL FACTORY (DICER-LIKE1) mutant, a homolog of dicer-1 from Drosophila

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 236-240

  Finnegan, E Jean ^a   Margis, Rogerio ^a,b   Waterhouse, Peter M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; MICRORNAS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0037316517     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00010-1     Document Type: Article

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