Volker Knoop, Elena Lesch, Bastian Oldenkott, Yingying Yang and Mareike Schallenberg-Rüdinger (IMAGE)

University of Bonn

Volker Knoop, Elena Lesch, Bastian Oldenkott, Yingying Yang and Mareike Schallenberg-Rüdinger

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Volker Knoop, Elena Lesch, Bastian Oldenkott, Yingying Yang and Mareike Schallenberg-Rüdinger are investigating a gene correction mechanism in plants known as RNA editing. During this process, one of the RNA building blocks (cytidine, abbreviated C) is chemically converted into another (uridine, abbreviated U).

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