Identification of putative candidate genes involved in cuticle formation in Prunus avium (sweet cherry) fruit

Annals of Botany

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-112

  Alkio, Merianne ^a   Jonas, Uwe ^a   Sprink, Thorben ^a   Van Nocker, Steven ^b   Knoche, Moritz ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cuticle; cuticular membrane; cutin; de novo assembly; epidermis; microcracks; Prunus avium; reverse transcriptase quantitative real time PCR; RNA Seq; Solexa Illumina sequencing; sweet cherry; wax

Indexed keywords

CUTINE; MEMBRANE LIPID;

BIOINFORMATICS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MATURATION; MEMBRANE; MICROSCOPY; POLYMER; SHRUB;

ARTICLE; FRUIT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PRUNUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

FRUIT; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PRUNUS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; PRUNUS AVIUM; PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 84862997105     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs087     Document Type: Article

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