Short interfering RNAs specific for potato spindle tuber viroid are found in the cytoplasm but not in the nucleus

Plant Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 762-769

  Denti, Michela Alessandra ^a,b,c   Boutla, Alexandra ^a,b   Tsagris, Mina ^a,b   Tabler, Martin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dicer; miRNA; Post transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS); Regulatory non coding RNA; RNA interference (RNAi); siRNA

Indexed keywords

ENZYME KINETICS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RNA;

CYTOPLASMA; GENE EXPRESSION;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROCHROMATIN; METABOLISM; PLANT VIRUS; POTATO; TOMATO; VIROID; VIROLOGY;

CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; HETEROCHROMATIN; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT VIRUSES; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIROIDS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; POTATO SPINDLE TUBER VIROID; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIROIDS;

EID: 1542288824     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02001.x     Document Type: Article

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