Assembling the transcriptome of a noxious weed: New resources for studying how plants invade

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 17:01 in Biology & Nature

In order to build and maintain cells, DNA is copied into ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules, also called transcripts. Transcripts are often like a recipe for making proteins, and a collection of all the transcripts in a cell is called a transcriptome.

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