Genome-Wide Analysis of the Expansin Gene Superfamily Reveals Grapevine-Specific Structural and Functional Characteristics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Dal Santo, Silvia ^a   Vannozzi, Alessandro ^b   Tornielli, Giovanni Battista ^a   Fasoli, Marianna ^a   Venturini, Luca ^a   Pezzotti, Mario ^a   Zenoni, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATULIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BERRY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 3; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; EXPANSIN A GENE; EXPANSIN B GENE; EXPANSIN LIKE A GENE; EXPANSIN LIKE B GENE; FRUIT RIPENING; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GRAPE; INDEL MUTATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT RESPONSE; PLANT STRESS; PLANT TISSUE; POPULUS; RICE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VITIS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ORYZA SATIVA; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; VITIS; VITIS VINIFERA;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; VITIS;

EID: 84876191620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062206     Document Type: Article

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