Genome reprogramming and small interfering RNA in the Arabidopsis germline

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 134-139

  Calarco, Joseph P ^a   Martienssen, Robert A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

APOMIXIS; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOGENESIS; CELL FATE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE; GENE SILENCING; GENOME REPROGRAMMING; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HYBRID; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; GENOME, PLANT; GERM CELLS, PLANT; HUMANS; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 79953163301     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2011.01.014     Document Type: Review

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