Induction, suppression and requirement of RNA silencing pathways in virulent Agrobacterium tumefaciens infections

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 258-263

  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

DNA; MICRORNA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DISEASE COURSE; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTRONS; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANT TUMORS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TOBACCO; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 31744448037     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1722     Document Type: Article

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