Transcript profiling of two alfalfa genotypes with contrasting cell wall composition in stems using a cross-species platform: Optimizing analysis by masking biased probes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Yang, S Samuel ^a   Xu, Wayne W ^b   Tesfaye, Mesfin ^b   Lamb, JoAnn F S ^a,b   Jung, Hans Joachim G ^a,b   VandenBosch, Kathryn A ^b   Vance, Carroll P ^a,b   Gronwald, John W ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BIOCHIP; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DOWN REGULATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PLANT STEM; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

MESSENGER RNA;

CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOTYPE; MEDICAGO SATIVA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLANT STEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77952513895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-323     Document Type: Article

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