Production and processing of siRNA precursor transcripts from the highly repetitive maize genome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Hale, Christopher J ^a   Erhard Jr , Karl F ^a   Lisch, Damon ^a   Hollick, Jay B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GRASS; HETEROCHROMATIN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MAIZE; MUTANT; MUTATION; OUTCROSSING; RETROPOSON; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PLANT GENOME; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSPOSON;

ZEA MAYS;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70149109627     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000598     Document Type: Article

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