RNA interference in crop plants

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-143

  Kusaba, Makoto ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coat protein mediated protection; CPMP; Double stranded RNA; dsRNA; Hairpin RNA; hpRNA; Micro RNA; miRNA; Post transcriptional gene silencing; PTGS; RdRP; RISC; RNA interference; RNA dependent RNA polymerase; RNA induced silencing complex; RNAi; siRNA

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

CROP; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENE; WORM;

ANIMALS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 1842815204     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2004.02.004     Document Type: Review

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