Towards decoding the conifer giga-genome

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 555-569

  Mackay, John ^a   Dean, Jeffrey F D ^b   Plomion, Christophe ^c   Peterson, Daniel G ^d   Cánovas, Francisco M ^e   Pavy, Nathalie ^a   Ingvarsson, Pär K ^f   Savolainen, Outi ^g   Guevara, M Ángeles ^h   Fluch, Silvia ⁱ   Vinceti, Barbara ^j   Abarca, Dolores ^k   Díaz Sala, Carmen ^k   Cervera, María Teresa ^h  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^d MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^f UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^h INIA   (Spain)

ⁱ AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^j BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Conifers; Functional genomics; Giga genome sequencing; Integrative studies

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONIFER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT GENOME; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CONIFEROPHYTA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 84870241165     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-012-9961-7     Document Type: Review

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