A simple and rapid method to detect plant siRNAs using nonradioactive probes

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-58

  Goto, Kazunori ^a   Kanazawa, Akira ^a   Kusaba, Makoto ^b   Masuta, Chikara ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute of Radiation Breeding   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digoxigenin; Nonradioactive probes; Northern blot analysis; PTGS; RNA silencing; siRNAs

Indexed keywords

PETUNIA;

EID: 0038176679     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02773396     Document Type: Article

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