Vitamin E biosynthesis genes in rice: Molecular characterization, expression profiling and comparative phylogenetic analysis

Plant Science

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 479-491

  Chaudhary, Neetu ^a   Khurana, Paramjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Microarray; Phylogenetic analysis; Populus; Rice; Tocochromanols; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; POPULUS;

EID: 69049091745     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2009.07.014     Document Type: Article

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