Post-transcriptional gene silencing in plants by RNA

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 167-174

  Yu, H ^a,b   Kumar, P P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Double stranded RNA; MicroRNA; Plant functional genomics; Post transcriptional gene silencing; RNA silencing

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RNA;

GENE SILENCING;

GENES;

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PLANT RNA;

GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GENOME; PLANT; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING;

GENE SILENCING; GENOME, PLANT; PLANTS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, PLANT;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0242286668     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-003-0699-1     Document Type: Review

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