Conserved Cu-MicroRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana Function in Copper Economy under Deficiency
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
3. Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Plant Material and Growth Conditions
4.2. Transgenic Lines
4.3. Elemental Analysis
4.4. Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measurements
4.5. Protein Accumulation
4.6. Quantitative Reverse Transcription-PCR
4.7. Mature miRNA Stem-Loop qRT-PCR
4.8. Statistical Analysis
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
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Shahbaz, M.; Pilon, M. Conserved Cu-MicroRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana Function in Copper Economy under Deficiency. Plants 2019, 8, 141. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8060141
Shahbaz M, Pilon M. Conserved Cu-MicroRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana Function in Copper Economy under Deficiency. Plants. 2019; 8(6):141. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8060141
Chicago/Turabian StyleShahbaz, Muhammad, and Marinus Pilon. 2019. "Conserved Cu-MicroRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana Function in Copper Economy under Deficiency" Plants 8, no. 6: 141. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8060141