Reference gene selection in the desert plant Eremosparton songoricum

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6944-6963

  Li, Xiao Shuang ^a,b   Yang, Hong Lan ^a   Zhang, Dao Yuan ^a   Zhang, Yuan Ming ^a   Wood, Andrew J ^c  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eremosparton songoricum; GeNorm; Quantitative real time PCR; Reference genes; Validation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; RNA 18S; UBIQUITIN; OXYGEN; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

18S GENE; ACT GENE; ALPHA TUB GENE; ARTICLE; BETA TUB1 GENE; BETA TUB2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT STRESS; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; EF GENE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EREMOSPARTON SONGORICUM; GAPDH GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC STABILITY; GERMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT GENE; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE GENE; SAMPLE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHRUB; UBQ GENE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DESERT CLIMATE; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GERMINATION; OXYGEN; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PLANT; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84862487856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms13066944     Document Type: Article

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