De novo sequencing and analysis of the American ginseng root transcriptome using a GS FLX Titanium platform to discover putative genes involved in ginsenoside biosynthesis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sun, Chao ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Wu, Qiong ^a   Luo, Hongmei ^a   Sun, Yongzhen ^a   Song, Jingyuan ^a   Lui, Edmund M K ^b   Chen, Shilin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANT DEVELOPMENT   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; ENZYME; GINSENOSIDE; GINSENOSIDE DERIVATIVE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ISOPRENOID; JASMONIC ACID METHYL ESTER; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GINSENG; KYOTO ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GENES AND GENOMES; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUS; PLANT ROOT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUS;

EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GINSENOSIDES; PANAX; PLANT ROOTS;

EID: 77951121533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-262     Document Type: Article

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