In Medicago truncatula, water deficit modulates the transcript accumulation of components of small RNA pathways

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Capitão, Cláudio ^a   Paiva, Jorge A P ^b   Santos, Dulce M ^b   Fevereiro, Pedro ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; BIOSYNTHESIS; DEHYDRATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEHYDRATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HUMANS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79955728996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-11-79     Document Type: Article

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