Genomic profiling of rice sperm cell transcripts reveals conserved and distinct elements in the flowering plant male germ lineage

New Phytologist

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 560-573

  Russell, Scott D ^a   Gou, Xiaoping ^a   Wong, Chui E ^b   Wang, Xinkun ^c   Yuan, Tong ^a   Wei, Xiaoping ^a   Bhalla, Prem L ^b   Singh, Mohan B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosperm sperm cells; Chromatin modeling; Expression profiling; Gamete transcriptome; Male gamete expression; Male germ unit; Oryza sativa

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA;

ANGIOSPERM; BIOASSAY; DIVERGENCE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; GERM CELL; MALE; PROTEIN; RICE;

ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATIN; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENE; REPRODUCTION; RICE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEEDLING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GERM CELLS, PLANT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT CELLS; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; SEEDLING; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

DICOTYLEDONEAE; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 84863779697     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04199.x     Document Type: Article

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