Features of a unique intronless cluster of class I small heat shock protein genes in tandem with box C/D snoRNA genes on chromosome 6 in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Planta

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 453-471

  Goyal, Ravinder K ^a,b   Kumar, Vinod ^a   Shukla, Vijaya ^a,c   Mattoo, Rohini ^d   Liu, Yongsheng ^e   Chung, Sang Ho ^a,f   Giovannoni, James J ^e   Mattoo, Autar K ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f Mokwon University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chaperones; Cis elements; Fruit ripening; Gene clusters; Gene mapping; Molecular phylogeny; snoRNA; Solanum lycopersicum

Indexed keywords

SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS, SMALL; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84857625294     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-011-1518-5     Document Type: Article

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