MicroRNAs and their putative targets in Brassica napus seed maturation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Daiqing ^a   Koh, Chushin ^a   Feurtado, J Allan ^a   Tsang, Edward W T ^a   Cutler, Adrian J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embryo; Next generation sequencing; Seed development

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 156; MICRORNA 158; MICRORNA 159; MICRORNA 166; MICRORNA 167; MICRORNA 172; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COTYLEDON; ENDOSPERM; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENOME; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RAPESEED; RNA SEQUENCE; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SEED HUSK; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

BRASSICA NAPUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; MICRORNAS; RNA, PLANT; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS;

EID: 84874370620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-140     Document Type: Article

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