A draft of the genome and four transcriptomes of a medicinal and pesticidal angiosperm Azadirachta indica

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Krishnan, Neeraja M ^a   Pattnaik, Swetansu ^a,b   Jain, Prachi ^a   Gaur, Prakhar ^a   Choudhary, Rakshit ^a   Vaidyanathan, Srividya ^a   Deepak, Sa ^a   Hariharan, Arun K ^a   Krishna, PG B ^a   Nair, Jayalakshmi ^a   Varghese, Linu ^a   Valivarthi, Naveen K ^a   Dhas, Kunal ^a   Ramaswamy, Krishna ^a   Panda, Binay ^a,b  

^a Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology   (India)

^b Strand Life Sciences ^*  (India)

Author keywords

A. Indica; Genome; Meliaceae; Neem; Pesticide and transcript expression; Phylogeny; Repeats; Terpenoid biosynthesis; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE; TERPENOID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; CACAO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GRAPE; INTRON; MELIA AZEDARACH; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RICE; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SORGHUM; SWEET ORANGE; TANDEM REPEAT; TAXONOMY;

AZADIRACHTA; BASE COMPOSITION; GENOME, PLANT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PESTICIDES; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERPENES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AZADIRACHTA INDICA; CITRUS SINENSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MELIACEAE; RUTACEAE;

EID: 84865828397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-464     Document Type: Article

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