Small RNA pathways are present and functional in the angiosperm male gametophyte

Molecular Plant

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 500-512

  Grant Downton, Robert ^a   Hafidh, Said ^b   Twell, David ^b   Dickinson, Hugh G ^a  

^a Department of Plant Sciences ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; MicroRNA; Plant germline; Pollen; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; POLLEN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANGIOSPERMS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GERM CELLS; GERM CELLS, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLLEN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 68349145129     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssp003     Document Type: Article

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