A genomic-scale artificial MicroRNA library as a tool to investigate the functionally redundant gene space in arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2848-2863

  Hauser, Felix ^a   Chen, Wenxiao ^a   Deinlein, Ulrich ^a   Chang, Kenneth ^b   Ossowski, Stephan ^c   Fitz, Joffrey ^c   Hannon, Gregory J ^b   Schroeder, Julian I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTEOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FLOWER; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC TESTING; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOMICS; MICRORNAS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEOME;

EID: 84884693277     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.112805     Document Type: Article

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