Functional conservation of the plant EMBRYONIC FLOWER2 gene between bamboo and Arabidopsis

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1961-1968

  Xu, Hong ^a,b,c   Chen, Ling Jing ^d   Qu, Li Jia ^e   Gu, Hong Ya ^e   Li, De Zhu ^a,b  

^a Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anti sense; Bamboo EMF2; Rapid amplification of cDNA ends; Real time PCR; Rescue

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE; ARABIDOPSIS; DENDROCALAMUS LATIFLORUS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EARLY-FLOWERING; EUDICOTS; FLOWERING-TIME; MONOCOTS; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; RAPID AMPLIFICATION OF CDNA ENDS; REAL-TIME PCR; RESCUE; SHOOT TISSUE; TRANSCRIPT LEVEL; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ARABIDOPSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; GENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BAMBOO;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; EMF2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PLANT DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POACEAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POACEAE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ANTISENSE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; DENDROCALAMUS LATIFLORUS; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 78149407657     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-010-0362-1     Document Type: Article

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