Transcriptomes of the desiccation-tolerant resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum

Plant Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 212-228

  Rodriguez, Maria C Suarez ^a   Edsgärd, Daniel ^b   Hussain, Syed S ^c   Alquezar, David ^a   Rasmussen, Morten ^a   Gilbert, Thomas ^a   Nielsen, Bjørn H ^b   Bartels, Dorothea ^c   Mundy, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

desiccation tolerance; expressed sequence tags; pyro sequencing; resurrection plant

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RESPONSE; DESICCATION TOLERANCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS; LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; RESURRECTION PLANT; TRANSCRIPTOMES; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VITAMIN K; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCES;

BIOCHEMISTRY; DEHYDRATION; DEWATERING;

GENE EXPRESSION;

PLANT RNA; WATER;

ARTICLE; CRATEROSTIGMA; DEHYDRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

CRATEROSTIGMA; DEHYDRATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER;

CRATEROSTIGMA; CRATEROSTIGMA PLANTAGINEUM; SELAGINELLA PILIFERA;

EID: 77954435968     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04243.x     Document Type: Article

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