Evaluation of candidate reference genes for real-time quantitative PCR of plant samples using purified cDNA as template

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 407-416

  Phillips, Michael A ^a,b   D'Auria, John C ^a   Luck, Katrin ^a   Gershenzon, Jonathan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURAL GENOMICS CRAG   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Gene expression; Microcapillary electrophoresis; Picea abies; Quantitative real time PCR analysis

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAMMALIA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 70350012072     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-008-0072-1     Document Type: Article

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