RNA interference-inducing hairpin RNAs in plants act through the viral defence pathway

EMBO Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1168-1175

  Fusaro, Adriana F ^a   Matthew, Louisa ^a   Smith, Neil A ^a   Curtin, Shaun J ^a,b   Dedic Hagan, Jasmina ^a,c   Ellacott, Geoff A ^a   Watson, John M ^a   Wang, Ming Bo ^a   Brosnan, Chris ^d   Carroll, Bernard J ^d   Waterhouse, Peter M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER LIKE ENZYME 2; DICER LIKE ENZYME 3; DICER LIKE ENZYME 4; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICATION; VIRAL PLANT DISEASE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT VIRUSES; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 33750513190     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400837     Document Type: Article

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