DCL3 and DCL4 are likely involved in the light intensity: RNA silencing cross talk in Nicotiana benthamiana

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1180-1182

  Kotakis, Christos ^a   Vrettos, Nicholas ^a,b   Daskalaki, Maria G ^a   Kotzabasis, Kiriakos ^a   Kalantidis, Kriton ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dicer like; Environment; Light intensity; Plant; Rna silencing; Sense post transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE III; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; LIGHT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA;

EID: 79961183762     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-10     Document Type: Article

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