"And yet it moves": Cell-to-cell and long-distance signaling by plant microRNAs

Plant Science

Volumn 196, Issue , 2012, Pages 18-30

  Marín González, Esther ^a   Suárez López, Paula ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURAL GENOMICS CRAG   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell to cell signaling; Long distance signaling; MicroRNA; MiRNA movement; Phloem transport

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PLANT RNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHLOEM; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PLASMODESMA; REVIEW; RNA TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHLOEM; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS; PLASMODESMATA; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, PLANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84864959740     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2012.07.009     Document Type: Review

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