RNA interference: Concept to reality in crop improvement

Planta

Volumn 239, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 543-564

  Saurabh, Satyajit ^a   Vidyarthi, Ambarish S ^a   Prasad, Dinesh ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Crop improvement; Defence enhancement; Male sterility; miRNA; Morphology alteration; RNAi; Seedless fruit; siRNA; Stress tolerance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRENDS;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84925546822     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-013-2019-5     Document Type: Review

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