Small RNA diversity in plants and its impact in development

Current Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 14-23

  Lelandais Brière, Christine ^a,b   Sorin, Céline ^a,b   Declerck, Marie ^a   Benslimane, Abdelali ^b,c   Crespi, Martin ^a   Hartmann, Caroline ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOGENESIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GYMNOSPERM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POACEAE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RICE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; ROOT DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES; STRESS;

EID: 77950646014     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920210790217918     Document Type: Review

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