Computational Identification of Sweet Wormwood (Artemisia annua) microRNA and Their mRNA Targets

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 200-210

  Pani, Alok ^a   Mahapatra, Rajani Kanta ^a,b   Behera, Niranjan ^b   Naik, Pradeep Kumar ^c  

^a KIIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SAMBALPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c JAYPEE UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Artemisia annua; Artemisinin; Computational prediction; EST; MicroRNA

Indexed keywords

AMORPHA 4,11 DIENE SYNTHASE; ARTEMISININ; CYTOCHROME P450; FARNESYLPYROPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG SYNTHESIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; RICE; RNA ANALYSIS;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ARTEMISININS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA-REDUCTASES, NADP-DEPENDENT; MICRORNAS; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATES; RNA, MESSENGER; SESQUITERPENES;

AMORPHA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTEMISIA ANNUA;

EID: 84856376676     PISSN: 16720229     EISSN: 22103244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-0229(11)60023-5     Document Type: Article

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