Computational estimation and experimental verification of off-target silencing during posttranscriptional gene silencing in plants

Plant Physiology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 429-440

  Xu, Ping ^a   Zhang, Yuanji ^a   Kang, Li ^a   Roossinck, Marilyn J ^a   Mysore, Kirankumar S ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING (PTGS); QUANTITATIVE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTOME SEQUENCES;

GENES;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750061917     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.083295     Document Type: Article

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