The advent of genomics in mulberry and perspectives for productivity enhancement

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 825-838

  Khurana, Paramjit ^a   Checker, Vibha G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Amelioration; Functional genomics; Genetic transformation; Mulberry; Stress

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDIA; METABOLOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MORUS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT LEAF; REVIEW; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; INDIA; METABOLOMICS; MORUS; PLANT LEAVES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AVES; BOMBYX MORI; MORUS (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 79954570430     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1059-1     Document Type: Review

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