MicroRNA activity in the Arabidopsis male germline

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1611-1620

  Borges, Filipe ^a   Pereira, Patrícia A ^a   Slotkin, R Keith ^b   Martienssen, Robert A ^c   Becker, Jörg D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; male germ cells; microRNA; pollen; post transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 5 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; POLLEN; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MICRORNAS; POLLEN; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 79952325140     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq452     Document Type: Review

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