The complete nucleotide sequence of the coffee (Coffea arabica L.) chloroplast genome: Organization and implications for biotechnology and phylogenetic relationships amongst angiosperms

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 339-353

  Samson, Nalapalli ^a   Bausher, Michael G ^b   Lee, Seung Bum ^a   Jansen, Robert K ^c   Daniell, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast genetic engineering; Chloroplast genome; Coffee; Phylogeny; Rubiaceae

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; PLANT RNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; COFFEE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANGIOSPERMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COFFEA; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PLANT; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASTERIDS; COFFEA; COFFEA ARABICA; EUROSIDS II; GENTIANALES; LAMIIDS; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ROSIDS; RUBIACEAE; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 33847195053     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2007.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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