Genome-wide identification of soybean microRNAs and their targets reveals their organ-specificity and responses to phosphate starvation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Feng ^a   Liu, Qian ^a   Chen, Luying ^a   Kuang, Jiebin ^a   Walk, Thomas ^a   Wang, Jinxiang ^a   Liao, Hong ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Deep sequencing; Degradome; Genome; Leaf; MicroRNA; Phosphorus; RLM 5' RACE; Root; Soybean

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LEAF; PLANT NUTRITION; PLANT ROOT; PROMOTER REGION; SOYBEAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; RNA STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; GLYCINE MAX;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; MICRORNAS; NUCLEOTIDES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOSPHATES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOYBEANS;

EID: 84873045250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-66     Document Type: Article

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