MicroRNA regulation of the CUC genes is required for boundary size control in Arabidopsis meristems

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 4311-4322

  Laufs, Patrick ^a   Peaucelle, Alexis ^a   Morin, Halima ^a   Traas, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

Author keywords

Boundary; Cell fate; Differentiation; Meristem; MicroRNA; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTYLEDON; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MERISTEM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL DIVISION; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HISTONES; MERISTEM; MICRORNAS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4444275405     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01320     Document Type: Article

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