Comparative Analysis and Functional Annotation of a Large Expressed Sequence Tag Collection of Apple

Plant Genome

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Gasic, Ksenija ^a   Gonzalez, Delkin O ^a   Thimmapuram, Jyothi ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Malnoy, Mickael ^b   Gong, George ^a   Han, Yuepeng ^a   Vodkin, Lila O ^a   Aldwinckle, Herb S ^b   Carroll, Natalie J ^c   Orvis, Kathryn S ^c   Goldsbrough, Peter ^c   Clifton, Sandra ^d   Pape, Deana ^d   Fulton, Lucinda ^d   Martin, John ^d   Theising, Brenda ^d   Wisniewski, Michael E ^e   Fazio, Gennaro ^f   Feltus, Frank A ^g   Korban, Schuyler S ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e APPALACHIAN FRUIT RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^g CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77953220706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3835/plantgenome2008.11.0014     Document Type: Article

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