A systematic small RNA signaling system in plants

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1979-2000

  Yoo, Byung Chun ^a   Kragler, Friedrich ^a   Varkonyi Gasic, Erika ^b   Haywood, Valerie ^a   Archer Evans, Sarah ^a   Lee, Young Moo ^a   Lough, Tony J ^b   Lucas, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AgriGenesis Biosciences   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GENES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; VIRUSES;

BIOINFORMATIC ANALYSIS; RNA SIGNALING SYSTEMS;

RNA;

DISEASES; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; PROTEINS; VIRUSES;

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITA; CUCURBITA MAXIMA; EMBRYOPHYTA; LUPINUS; LUPINUS ALBUS; RNA VIRUSES;

CAPSID PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CUCUMBER; CYTOLOGY; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; LUPIN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SQUASH; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CAPSID PROTEINS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITA; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; LUPINUS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 4043130331     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.023614     Document Type: Article

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