Discovery and comparative profiling of microRNAs in a sweet orange red-flesh mutant and its wild type

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Qiang ^a   Liu, Yuanlong ^a   Zhu, Andan ^a   Wu, Xiaomeng ^a   Ye, Junli ^a   Yu, Keqin ^a   Guo, Wenwu ^a   Deng, Xiuxin ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENE; GENOMIC RNA; LYCOPENE; MICRORNA; TRANSFER RNA; CAROTENOID; PLANT RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAROTENOID BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWEET ORANGE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION;

CITRUS SINENSIS;

CAROTENOIDS; CITRUS SINENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77952611257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-246     Document Type: Article

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