RNAi and microRNA: Breakthrough technologies for the improvement of plant nutritional value and metabolic engineering

Metabolomics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 357-369

  Tang, Guiliang ^a   Galili, Gad ^b   Zhuang, Xun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antisense; Co suppression; Essential amino acids; Gene disruption; Metabolomics; miRNA; Nutrition; RNAi; RNAi vector; Silencing suppressor; siRNA

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34748836500     PISSN: 15733882     EISSN: 15733890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11306-007-0073-3     Document Type: Article

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