Highly specific gene silencing by artificial microRNAs in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1121-1133

  Schwab, Rebecca ^a   Ossowski, Stephan ^a   Riester, Markus ^a   Warthmann, Norman ^a   Weigel, Detlef ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENE SILENCING; GENOME-WIDE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INTRINSIC PROPERTIES; PLANT MICRORNAS (MIRNA);

RNA;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 33745393624     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.039834     Document Type: Article

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