Highly specific gene silencing by artificial miRNAs in rice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Warthmann, Norman ^a   Chen, Hao ^b   Ossowski, Stephan ^a   Weigel, Detlef ^a   Herve, Philippe ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^c EXELIXIS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATED UPPERMOST INTERNODE 1 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PHYTOENE DESATURASE; SPOTTED LEAF 11 PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AGRONOMIC TRAIT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENETICS; PROGENY; RICE; TRANSGENE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VARIETAS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; JAPONICA; ORYZA SATIVA;

GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; ORYZA SATIVA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 46649106719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001829     Document Type: Article

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