RNA silencing in plants

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7006, 2004, Pages 356-363

  Baulcombe, David ^a  

^a SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY); VIRUSES;

GENOME CONTROL; SILENCING SIGNALS;

RNA;

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PLANT DNA; PRIMER RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

RNA;

BASE PAIRING; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICRORNAS; PLANTS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT;

TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 4644242349     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02874     Document Type: Review

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