Plant miRNAs: biogenesis, organization and origins

Functional and Integrative Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 523-531

  Budak, Hikmet ^a   Akpinar, B Ani ^a  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biogenesis; Genomic organization; MicroRNA; miRNA origins; Mirtron

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BARREL MEDIC; BIOGENESIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PLANT GENOME; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RICE; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SORGHUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PLANT;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 84941259412     PISSN: 1438793X     EISSN: 14387948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10142-015-0451-2     Document Type: Review

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