Comparative analysis of non-autonomous effects of tasiRNAs and miRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2880-2889

  Felippes, Felipe Fenselau De ^a   Ott, Felix ^a   Weigel, Detlef ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANS ACTING SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PHLOEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICRORNAS; PHLOEM; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 79954623901     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1240     Document Type: Article

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