Impact of down-regulation of starch branching enzyme IIb in rice by artificial microRNA-and hairpin RNA-mediated RNA silencing

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 4927-4941

  Butardo, Vito M ^a,b,c   Fitzgerald, Melissa A ^b   Bird, Anthony R ^a   Gidley, Michael J ^c   Flanagan, Bernadine M ^c   Larroque, Oscar ^a   Resurreccion, Adoracion P ^b   Laidlaw, Hunter K C ^a   Jobling, Stephen A ^a   Morell, Matthew K ^a   Rahman, Sadequr ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

CP MAS NMR; crystalline polymorph; RNA interference; starch granules; XRD

Indexed keywords

1,4 ALPHA GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; MICRORNA; STARCH; STARCH BRANCHING ENZYME IIB; STARCH-BRANCHING ENZYME IIB; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INVERTED REPEAT; METABOLISM; RICE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

1,4-ALPHA-GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MICRORNAS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; STARCH;

EID: 80054110855     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err188     Document Type: Article

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