Transcriptomic analysis of grain amaranth (Amaranthus hypochondriacus) using 454 pyrosequencing: Comparison with A. tuberculatus, expression profiling in stems and in response to biotic and abiotic stress

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Délano Frier, John P ^a   Avilés Arnaut, Hamlet ^a   Casarrubias Castillo, Kena ^a   Casique Arroyo, Gabriela ^a   Castrillón Arbeláez, Paula A ^a   Herrera Estrella, Luis ^b   Massange Sánchez, Julio ^a   Martínez Gallardo, Norma A ^a   Parra Cota, Fannie I ^a   Vargas Ortiz, Erandi ^a   Estrada Hernández, María G ^a,c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

^b Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad Cinvestav Irapuato   (Mexico)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ABIOTIC STRESS; AMARANTHUS; AMARANTHUS HYPOCHONDRIACUS; AMARANTHUS TUBERCULATUS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOTIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAIN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT STEM; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; PYROSEQUENCING; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT LEAF;

AMARANTHACEAE; AMARANTHUS HYPOCHONDRIACUS; ARABIDOPSIS; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA;

AMARANTHUS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONTIG MAPPING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79960128962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-363     Document Type: Article

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