Identification and Analysis of Red Sea Mangrove (Avicennia marina) microRNAs by High-Throughput Sequencing and Their Association with Stress Responses

Basel Khraiwesh; Ganesan Pugalenthi; Nina V. Fedoroff

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060774

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Identification and Analysis of Red Sea Mangrove (Avicennia marina) microRNAs by High-Throughput Sequencing and Their Association with Stress Responses

Basel Khraiwesh ,

* E-mail: Basel.Khraiwesh@kaust.edu.sa

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ganesan Pugalenthi,

Affiliation Bioscience Core Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Nina V. Fedoroff

Affiliations Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Evan Pugh Professor, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Identification and Analysis of Red Sea Mangrove (Avicennia marina) microRNAs by High-Throughput Sequencing and Their Association with Stress Responses

Basel Khraiwesh,
Ganesan Pugalenthi,
Nina V. Fedoroff

Published: April 8, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060774

About the Authors

Basel Khraiwesh

* E-mail: Basel.Khraiwesh@kaust.edu.sa

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ganesan Pugalenthi

Affiliation Bioscience Core Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Nina V. Fedoroff

Affiliations Center for Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Evan Pugh Professor, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BK. Performed the experiments: BK. Analyzed the data: BK GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BK GP NVF. Wrote the paper: BK.

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