Mechanisms of small RNA generation from Cis-NATs in response to environmental and developmental cues

Molecular Plant

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 704-715

  Zhang, Xiaoming ^a   Lii, Yifan ^a   Wu, Zhigang ^a   Polishko, Anton ^b   Zhang, Huiming ^c   Chinnusamy, Viswanathan ^d   Lonardi, Stefano ^b   Zhu, Jian Kang ^c,e   Liu, Renyi ^a   Jin, Hailing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

gene expression; gene regulation; gene silencing

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84878328255     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/sst051     Document Type: Review

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