Draft genome sequence of the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rahman, Ahmad Yamin Abdul ^a   Usharraj, Abhilash O ^a   Misra, Biswapriya B ^a   Thottathil, Gincy P ^a   Jayasekaran, Kandakumar ^a   Feng, Yun ^b   Hou, Shaobin ^c   Ong, Su Yean ^a   Ng, Fui Ling ^a   Lee, Ling Sze ^a   Tan, Hock Siew ^a   Sakaff, Muhd Khairul Luqman Muhd ^a   Teh, Beng Soon ^a   Khoo, Bee F ^a   Badai, Siti Suriawati ^a   Aziz, Nurohaida Ab ^a   Yuryev, Anton ^d   Knudsen, Bjarne ^e   Dionne Laporte, Alexandre ^c,h   Mchunu, Nokuthula P ^f   Yu, Qingyi ^g   Langston, Brennick J ^g   Freitas, Tracey Allen K ^c,i   Young, Aaron G ^c   Chen, Rui ^b   Wang, Lei ^b   Najimudin, Nazalan ^a   Saito, Jennifer A ^a   Alam, Maqsudul ^a,c   more..

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d Ariadne Genomics Inc   (United States)

^e CLC Bio A/S   (Denmark)

^f DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

ⁱ LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Euphorbiaceae; Genome; Hevea brasiliensis; Natural rubber

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; F BOX PROTEIN; PHYTOHORMONE; REPETITIVE DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ALLERGEN; LATEX; RUBBER;

ALLERGENICITY; ARTICLE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAPLOIDY; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENOME; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HEVEA; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOOD;

EUPHORBIACEAE; HEVEA; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS;

ALLERGENS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; F-BOX PROTEINS; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; HAPLOIDY; HEVEA; LATEX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; RUBBER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WOOD;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873030734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-75     Document Type: Article

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