Adenosine methylation in Arabidopsis mRNA is associated with the 3′ end and reduced levels cause developmental defects

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Bodi, Zsuzsanna ^a   Zhong, Silin ^a,b   Mehra, Surbhi ^a   Song, Jie ^a,c   Graham, Neil ^a   Li, Hongying ^a   May, Sean ^a   Fray, Rupert George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IME4; METTL3; mRNA methylation; MT A70; Post transcriptional

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891485596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00048     Document Type: Article

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