Genetic subtraction profiling identifies genes essential for Arabidopsis reproduction and reveals interaction between the female gametophyte and the maternal sporophyte

Genome Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Johnston, Amal J ^a,c   Meier, Patrick ^a   Gheyselinck, Jacqueline ^a   Wuest, Samuel E J ^a   Federer, Michael ^a   Schlagenhauf, Edith ^a   Becker, Jörg D ^b   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERMEASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DATABASE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; SPOROPHYTE; WILD TYPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 39749117921     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r204     Document Type: Article

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