RNA silencing in plants: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Plant Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 456-468

  Eamens, Andrew ^a   Wang, Ming Bo ^a   Smith, Neil A ^a   Waterhouse, Peter M ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA;

GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; PLANT; REVIEW;

GENE SILENCING; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 48549084408     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.117275     Document Type: Review

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