Small-interfering RNAs from natural antisense transcripts derived from a cellulose synthase gene modulate cell wall biosynthesis in barley

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 20534-20539

  Held, Michael A ^a   Penning, Bryan ^a   Brandt, Amanda S ^b   Kessans, Sarah A ^a   Yong, Weidong ^a   Scofield, Steven R ^b   Carpita, Nicholas C ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

CesA Csl genes; cis NAT pairs; RNA regulation; Small RNAs; VIGS

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; CESA6 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CELL WALL; CELLULOSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCANS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HORDEUM; PLANT LEAVES; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE;

EID: 58149503664     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809408105     Document Type: Article

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