Discovery of genes related to steroidal alkaloid biosynthesis in Fritillaria cirrhosa by generating and mining a dataset of expressed sequence tags (ESTs)

Journal of Medicinal Plant Research

Volumn 5, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 5307-5314

  Sun, Chao ^a   Sun, Yongqiao ^b   Song, Jingyuan ^a   Li, Chenji ^b   Li, Xiwen ^a   Zhang, Xiaowei ^b   Li, Ying ^a   Hu, Songnian ^b   Luo, Hongmei ^a   Zhu, Yingjie ^a   Chen, Shilin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANT DEVELOPMENT   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Expressed sequence tags; Fritillaria cirrhosa; Steroidal alkaloids

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; AMINOTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; GERANYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FRITILLARIA; FRITILLARIA CIRRHOSA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENOME; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; SWISS-PROT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

FRITILLARIA (ANGIOSPERM); FRITILLARIA CIRRHOSA; LILIACEAE;

EID: 80054820333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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