Artificial microRNA mediated gene silencing in plants: Progress and perspectives

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages

  Tiwari, Manish ^a   Sharma, Deepika ^a,b   Trivedi, Prabodh Kumar ^a,b  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACSIR   (India)

Author keywords

AmiRNA; Gene expression; MiRNA; Plant biotechnology; RNA silencing; Stress response

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CROP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROCEDURES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, ANTISENSE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84919918832     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: 15735028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-014-0224-7     Document Type: Review

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