In silico analysis reveals that several tomato microRNA/microRNA* sequences exhibit propensity to bind to tomato leaf curl virus (ToLCV) associated genomes and most of their encoded open reading frames (ORFs)

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-17

  Naqvi, Afsar Raza ^a,b   Choudhury, Nirupam Roy ^b   Mukherjee, Sunil Kumar ^b   Haq, Qazi Mohd Rizwanul ^a  

^a JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

MicroRNAs; MiRU; RNA hybrid; Target mRNA; Tomato leaf curl virus (ToLCV); Transcription factors (TFs); Viral ORFs

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BEGOMOVIRUS; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT IMMUNITY; TOMATO; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; BEGOMOVIRUS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, PLANT; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICRORNAS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT IMMUNITY;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; GEMINIVIRIDAE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; TOMATO LEAF CURL VIRUS;

EID: 78650277705     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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