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MinireviewLifting the veil on the transcriptomeKevin P Callahan1 and J Scott Butler1,2  1Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA 2Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA author email corresponding author email
Genome Biology 2008,
9:218doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-4-218
Subject areas: Plant biology, Cell biology, Genetics, Molecular biology, Model organisms Abstract
Inhibition of the cellular RNA surveillance system in Arabidopsis thaliana results in the accumulation of thousands of transcripts arising from annotated and unannotated regions of the genome. This normally hidden transcriptome is replete with noncoding RNAs with the potential to regulate wide-ranging physiological activities. |