Identification of miRNAs and their target genes in developing maize ears by combined small RNA and degradome sequencing

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Hongjun ^a   Qin, Cheng ^a,b   Chen, Zhe ^a   Zuo, Tao ^c   Yang, Xuerong ^a   Zhou, Huangkai ^d   Xu, Meng ^d   Cao, Shiliang ^e   Shen, Yaou ^a   Lin, Haijian ^a   He, Xiujing ^a   Zhang, Yinchao ^a   Li, Lujiang ^a   Ding, Haiping ^a   Lübberstedt, Thomas ^c   Zhang, Zhiming ^a   Pan, Guangtang ^a  

^a SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zunyi Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (China)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DEGRADOME SEQUENCING; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MAIZE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT EAR; RNA SEQUENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ZEA MAYS;

ARABIDOPSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICRORNAS; NITRATES; ORYZA SATIVA; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SALTS; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84892421877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-25     Document Type: Article

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