The developmental role of microRNA in plants

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-44

  Kidner, Catherine A ^a   Martienssen, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MICRORNAS; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

EID: 11844305685     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2004.11.008     Document Type: Review

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