A 22-nt artificial microRNA mediates widespread RNA silencing in Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 519-529

  McHale, Marcus ^a   Eamens, Andrew L ^a,b   Finnegan, E Jean ^c   Waterhouse, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

22 nucleotide; Arabidopsis; artificial microRNA; asymmetric; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; phased small interfering RNA; RNA silencing; technical advance

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTIFICIAL MICRORNA; ASYMMETRIC; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; RNA SILENCING; SMALL-INTERFERING RNAS; TECHNICAL ADVANCES;

GENES; HISTOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED; TISSUE;

RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MICRORNA; RDR6 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

22 NUCLEOTIDE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MICRORNA; ASYMMETRIC; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHASED SMALL-INTERFERING RNA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SILENCING; TECHNICAL ADVANCE; TRANSGENE;

22 NUCLEOTIDE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTIFICIAL MICRORNA; ASYMMETRIC; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; PHASED SMALL-INTERFERING RNA; RNA SILENCING; TECHNICAL ADVANCE;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84885610165     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12306     Document Type: Article

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