Small RNAs and transposon silencing in plants

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-107

  Ito, Hidetaka ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Evolution; Plants; SiRNAs; Stress; Transposon

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPIGENETICS; GENE SILENCING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENOME; PLANT REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, PLANT; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PLANTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84855935697     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2011.01309.x     Document Type: Review

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