Intron splicing suppresses RNA silencing in Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 159-167

  Christie, Michael ^a   Croft, Larry J ^a   Carroll, Bernard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

ABA HYPERSENSITIVE 1; cap binding complex; gene silencing; intron splicing; RNA dependent RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

ABA HYPERSENSITIVE 1; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CAP-BINDING; CAP-BINDING COMPLEXES; ENDOGENOUS GENES; EXON SEQUENCES; GENE SILENCING; IN-VIVO; REPORTER SYSTEMS; RNA SILENCING; RNA-DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL RNA; TRANS-GENES; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENE SILENCING; TRANSGENIC CROPS; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

GENES;

ABH1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CAP BINDING PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; PLANT GENOME; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTRONS; RNA CAP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 80053567859     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04676.x     Document Type: Article

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