Towards a better bowl of rice: Assigning function to tens of thousands of rice genes

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 91-101

  Jung, Ki Hong ^a   An, Gynheung ^b   Ronald, Pamela C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGY; CEREAL; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RICE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

POACEAE;

EID: 38349085100     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2286     Document Type: Review

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