Transcriptome mining, functional characterization, and phylogeny of a large terpene synthase gene family in spruce (Picea spp.)

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Keeling, Christopher I ^a   Weisshaar, Sabrina ^b   Ralph, Steven G ^c   Jancsik, Sharon ^a   Hamberger, Britta ^d   Dullat, Harpreet K ^a   Bohlmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Roche Diagnostics Ltd   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA SITCHENSIS;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLANT DNA; TERPENE SYNTHASE; TRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SPRUCE;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PICEA; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 79952353192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-11-43     Document Type: Article

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