ORTom: A multi-species approach based on conserved co-expression to identify putative functional relationships among genes in tomato

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 519-532

  Miozzi, Laura ^a   Provero, Paolo ^b   Accotto, Gian Paolo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE PLANT PROTECTION   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conserved co expression; Expressed sequence tag (EST); Functional genomics; Solanaceae; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA MINING; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PLANT GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOMATO;

ARABIDOPSIS; DATA MINING; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INTERNET; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 77953230084     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-010-9638-z     Document Type: Article

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