DICER-LIKE 4 is required for RNA interference and produces the 21-nucleotide small interfering RNA component of the plant cell-to-cell silencing signal

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1356-1360

  Dunoyer, Patrice ^a   Himber, Christophe ^a   Voinnet, Olivier ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE III; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MOTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC CORRELATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SILENCER ELEMENT; SILENCER GENE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MOVEMENT; GENES, PLANT; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; NEMATODA;

EID: 28444464041     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1675     Document Type: Article

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