SGS3 and SGS2/SDE1/RDR6 are required for juvenile development and the production of trans-acting siRNAs in Arabidopsis

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 2368-2379

  Peragine, Angela ^a   Yoshikawa, Manabu ^a   Wu, Gang ^a   Albrecht, Heidi L ^a   Poethig, R Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterochrony; MiRNA; Posttranscriptional gene silencing; RNAi; SiRNA; Vegetative phase change

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPRESSOR GENE; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 4644286235     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1231804     Document Type: Article

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