Reconstruction of Arabidopsis thaliana fully integrated small RNA pathway

Functional and Integrative Genomics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 419-432

  Jamalkandi, Sadegh Azimzadeh ^a   Masoudi Nejad, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; IR PTGS; MicroRNA; MIR; miRNA; PTGS; RdDM; RNAi; S PTGS; siRNA; Small RNA; TAS; TGS; VIGS

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DICER; HUA ENHANCER 1 PROTEIN; HYPONASTIC LEAVES 1 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MICRORNAS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 70350020737     PISSN: 1438793X     EISSN: 14387948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10142-009-0141-z     Document Type: Review

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