Coordination of Flower Maturation by a Regulatory Circuit of Three MicroRNAs

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Rubio Somoza, Ignacio ^a   Weigel, Detlef ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION FACTOR 6; ARF8 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 159; MICRORNA 167; MICRORNA 319; PROTEIN MYB; PROTEIN TCP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE ACTION; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICRORNAS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84875994369     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003374     Document Type: Article

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