Engineering Elements for Gene Silencing: The Artificial MicroRNAs Technology

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 732, Issue , 2011, Pages 121-130

  Manavella, Pablo Andrés ^a   Rubio Somoza, Ignacio ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Gene silencing; MicroRNA; Small RNA attenuation; Specific gene downregulation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BRYOPSIDA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; RICE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRYOPSIDA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICRORNAS; ORYZA SATIVA; RNA INTERFERENCE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84855514350     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-083-6_9     Document Type: Chapter

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