MicroRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris target host messenger RNAs

Saima Shahid, Gunjune Kim, Nathan R. Johnson, Eric Wafula, Feng Wang, Ceyda Coruh, Vivian Bernal-Galeano, Tamia Phifer, Claude W. dePamphilis, James H. Westwood and Michael J. Axtell ()
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Saima Shahid: Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Gunjune Kim: Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Nathan R. Johnson: Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Eric Wafula: The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Feng Wang: Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Ceyda Coruh: Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Vivian Bernal-Galeano: Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Tamia Phifer: Knox College
Claude W. dePamphilis: Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
James H. Westwood: Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Michael J. Axtell: Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Nature, 2018, vol. 553, issue 7686, 82-85

Abstract: A parasitic plant produces microRNAs that target host messenger RNAs, causing them to be processed into small interfering RNAs.

Date: 2018
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