MicroRNA directs mRNA cleavage of the transcription factor NAC1 to downregulate auxin signals for Arabidopsis lateral root development

Plant Cell

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1376-1386

  Guo, Hui Shan ^a,b   Xie, Qi ^a,c   Fei, Ji Feng ^a,e   Chua, Nam Hai ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; REDUCTION; RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA MIR164; DOMAIN-ENCODING MRNAS; HOMEOSTATIC MECHANISM; PLANT MICRORNAS (MIRNAS);

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AUXINS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; MUTAGENS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHENOTYPES; PLANTS; REDUCTION; TRANSDUCERS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 24944510549     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.030841     Document Type: Article

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