Expressed sequence tag analysis in Cycas, the most primitive living seed plant

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Brenner, Eric D ^a   Stevenson, Dennis W ^a   McCombie, Richard W ^b   Katari, Manpreet S ^b   Rudd, Stephen A ^c   Mayer, Klaus Fx ^c   Palenchar, Peter M ^d   Runko, Suzan J ^a   Twigg, Richard W ^a   Dai, Guangwei ^e   Martienssen, Rob A ^b   Benfey, Phillip N ^f   Coruzzi, Gloria M ^d  

^a NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homocysteine Methyltransferase; Immature Leaf; Lower Plant; Plant ESTs; Yabby Gene

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO BETA METHYLAMINOPROPIONATE; ALPHA-AMINO-BETA-METHYLAMINOPROPIONATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIAMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CYCAS; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GYMNOSPERM; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACIDS, DIAMINO; CYCAS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PLANT; GYMNOSPERMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 1542577332     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-12-r78     Document Type: Article

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