Genome-wide survey of alternative splicing in the grass Brachypodium distachyon: A emerging model biosystem for plant functional genomics

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 629-636

  Sablok, Gaurav ^a   Gupta, P K ^a   Baek, Jong Min ^b   Vazquez, Franck ^c   Min, Xiang Jia ^d  

^a CH CHARAN SINGH UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Brachypodium distachyon; Exon intron junction; Intron retention; U1 snRNA

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; EXON-INTRON JUNCTION; INTRON RETENTION; U1 SNRNA;

GENES;

BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79951768304     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-010-0475-6     Document Type: Article

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