The functional scope of plant microRNA-mediated silencing

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 750-756

  Li, Junyan ^a   Reichel, Marlene ^a   Li, Yanjiao ^a   Millar, Anthony A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Functional analysis; MiRNA; MiRNA targets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915756903     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.08.006     Document Type: Review

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