Post-transcriptional control of miRNA abundance in Arabidopsis

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Ren, Guodong ^a   Yu, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; miRNA abundance; miRNA stability; Post transcriptional regulation; Pri miRNA processing

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MICRORNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENETICS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY;

EID: 84868567480     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.21956     Document Type: Review

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