Maternal siRNAs as regulators of parental genome imbalance and gene expression in endosperm of Arabidopsis seeds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 5529-5534

  Lu, Jie ^a   Zhang, Changqing ^a   Baulcombe, David C ^b   Chen, Z Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Imprinting; Polyploidy; Reproduction; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE 4; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOSPERM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NRPD1A GENE; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED MORPHOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; POLYPLOIDY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84859464802     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203094109     Document Type: Article

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