Silencing in sperm cells is directed by RNA movement from the surrounding nurse cell

Nature Plants

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Martínez, Germán ^a,b   Panda, Kaushik ^a   Köhler, Claudia ^b   Slotkin, R Keith ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GAMETOGENESIS; POLLEN; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GAMETOGENESIS, PLANT; POLLEN; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84978953128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.30     Document Type: Article

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