Specific down-regulation of PAL genes by artificial microRNAs in populus trichocarpa

Planta

Volumn 232, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1281-1288

  Shi, Rui ^a   Yang, Chenmin ^a   Lu, Shanfa ^a,b   Sederoff, Ronald ^a   Chiang, Vincent L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANT DEVELOPMENT   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial microRNA; Down regulation; Phenylalanine ammonia lyase; PolyA tailing based real time RT PCR; Populus trichocarpa transformation; Quantitation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; ASPEN; DOWN REGULATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENES, PLANT; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; POPULUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

POPULUS TRICHOCARPA;

EID: 78650307381     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-010-1253-3     Document Type: Article

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