microRNAs Associated with Drought Response in the Bioenergy Crop Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Ferreira, Thaís Helena ^a   Gentile, Agustina ^a   Vilela, Romel Duarte ^b   Costa, Gustavo Gilson Lacerda ^a   Dias, Lara Isys ^a   Endres, Laurício ^b   Menossi, Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 164; MICRORNA 394; MICRORNA 397; MICRORNA 399; MICRORNA 528; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CULTIVAR; DROUGHT STRESS; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT RESPONSE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SUGARCANE;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFUELS; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MICRORNAS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PLANT; SACCHARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84867422730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046703     Document Type: Article

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