Analysis of plant germline development by high-throughput RNA profiling: Technical advances and new insights

Plant Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-29

  Schmidt, Anja ^a   Schmid, Marc W ^a   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cell type specific isolation; fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS); germline development; laser assisted microdissection (LAM); microarrays; RNA Seq; transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

CELL-TYPE-SPECIFIC ISOLATION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GERMLINE; LASER-ASSISTED; RNA-SEQ; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; MICROARRAYS; MICRODISSECTION; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA; TISSUE;

CELLS;

PLANT RNA;

DNA MICROARRAY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GERM CELLS, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84859134191     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.04897.x     Document Type: Review

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