Apple miRNAs and tasiRNAs with novel regulatory networks

Genome Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Xia, Rui ^a,b   Zhu, Hong ^a,b   An, Yong qiang ^c   Beers, Eric P ^a   Liu, Zongrang ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b APPALACHIAN FRUIT RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 159; MICRORNA 828; MICRORNA 858; PROTEIN MYB; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANS ACTING SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MYB PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PLANT RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APPLE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADOME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MYB GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; TAS GENE; ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MALUS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, PLANT; MALUS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84862232060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-6-r47     Document Type: Article

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