Identification of aluminum-responsive microRNAs in Medicago truncatula by genome-wide high-throughput sequencing

Planta

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 375-386

  Chen, Lei ^a,b   Wang, Tianzuo ^a,b   Zhao, Mingui ^a   Tian, Qiuying ^a   Zhang, Wen Hao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Aluminum toxicity; High throughput sequencing; Medicago; MicroRNA

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; CHLORIDE; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; PLANT ROOT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CHLORIDES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANT ROOTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, PLANT;

MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 84856225018     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-011-1514-9     Document Type: Article

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