Seeing the forest for the trees: Annotating small RNA producing genes in plants

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 87-95

  Coruh, Ceyda ^a,b   Shahid, Saima ^a,b   Axtell, Michael J ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA;

GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; PLANT GENE;

GENES, PLANT; HETEROCHROMATIN; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 84896033622     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2014.02.008     Document Type: Review

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