Genome-wide identification and characterization of tRNA-derived RNA fragments in land plants

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2017, Pages 35-48

  Alves, Cristiane S ^a,b   Vicentini, Renato ^c   Duarte, Gustavo T ^c   Pinoti, Vitor F ^a   Vincentz, Michel ^c   Nogueira, Fabio T S ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; High throughput data; Small RNA; tRF; tRNA derived RNA fragment

Indexed keywords

PLANT PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; S-LIKE RNASE PROTEIN, PLANT; TRANSFER RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGY; BRYOPSIDA; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ORYZA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRYOPSIDA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, PLANT; ORYZA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, PLANT; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84988959247     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: 15735028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-016-0545-9     Document Type: Article

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