Small RNAs and regulation of transposons in plants

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-7

  Ito, Hidetaka ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Plants; SiRNA; Transposon

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE IV; RNA POLYMERASE V; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABIOTIC STRESS; BIOGENESIS; BIOTIC STRESS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSPERM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOWER; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENOME; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 84877892296     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: 18805779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.88.3     Document Type: Review

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