Identification and characterization of microRNAs in the developing maize endosperm

Genomics

Volumn 102, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 472-478

  Gu, Yong ^a   Liu, Yinghong ^a   Zhang, Junjie ^b   Liu, Hanmei ^b   Hu, Yufeng ^a   Du, Hai ^a   Li, Yangping ^a   Chen, Jiang ^a   Wei, Bin ^a   Huang, Yubi ^a  

^a SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Sichuan Agricultural Unversity   (China)

Author keywords

Endosperm; Identification; Maize; MiRNA; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEED DEVELOPMENT;

EUKARYOTA; ZEA MAYS;

ENDOSPERM; IDENTIFICATION; MAIZE; MIRNA; SEQUENCING;

ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICRORNAS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84890128643     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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