Evidence for Small RNAs Homologous to Effector-Encoding Genes and Transposable Elements in the Oomycete Phytophthora infestans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Vetukuri, Ramesh R ^a   Åsman, Anna K M ^a   Tellgren Roth, Christian ^b   Jahan, Sultana N ^a   Reimegård, Johan ^c   Fogelqvist, Johan ^a   Savenkov, Eugene ^a   Söderbom, Fredrik ^d   Avrova, Anna O ^e   Whisson, Stephen C ^e   Dixelius, Christina ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; MICRORNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERMINATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT DISEASES; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; METAZOA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84871304766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051399     Document Type: Article

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