Mobile 24 nt small RNAs direct transcriptional gene silencing in the root meristems of Arabidopsis thaliana

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 1678-1683

  Melnyk, Charles W ^a   Molnar, Attila ^a   Bassett, Andrew ^a,b   Baulcombe, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC Functional Genetics Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOTYPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MERISTEM; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 80053973598     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.065     Document Type: Article

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