To bloom or not to bloom: Role of micrornas in plant flowering

Molecular Plant

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 359-377

  Teotia, Sachin ^a,b,c   Tang, Guiliang ^a,c  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GAUTAM BUDDHA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AP2 like; flowering time; miR156; miR172; miRNA; phase transition; SPL

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PLANT RNA;

FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICRORNAS; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 84925203575     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2014.12.018     Document Type: Review

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