Identification of MicroRNAs and target genes in the fruit and shoot tip of Lycium chinense: A traditional chinese medicinal plant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Khaldun, A B M ^a,b   Huang, Wenjun ^a   Liao, Sihong ^a,b   Lv, Haiyan ^a   Wang, Ying ^a,c  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYCOPENE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 156; MICRORNA 159; MICRORNA 160; MICRORNA 162; MICRORNA 164; MICRORNA 166; MICRORNA 167; MICRORNA 168; MICRORNA 171; MICRORNA 172; MICRORNA 1918; MICRORNA 1919; MICRORNA 319; MICRORNA 394; MICRORNA 397; MICRORNA 398; MICRORNA 482; MICRORNA 530; MICRORNA 5300; MICRORNA 5301; MICRORNA 5303; MICRORNA 6020; MICRORNA 6022; MICRORNA 6024; MICRORNA 6025; MICRORNA 7997; MICRORNA 8007; MICRORNA 8011; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; FRUIT; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE TARGETING; LYCIUM CHINENSE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SHOOT; UPREGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LYCIUM; MEDICINAL PLANT;

LYCIUM CHINENSE;

FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LYCIUM; MICRORNAS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84920964554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116334     Document Type: Article

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