ARGONAUTE1 acts in arabidopsis root radial pattern formation independently of the SHR/SCR pathway

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 626-634

  Miyashima, Shunsuke ^a   Hashimoto, Takashi ^a   Nakajima, Keiji ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; ARGONAUTE; Differentiation; MicroRNA; Pattern formation; Root.

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

AGO1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; SCR PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; SHORT ROOT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; MUTATION; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 63049097552     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp020     Document Type: Article

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