Labellum transcriptome reveals alkene biosynthetic genes involved in orchid sexual deception and pollination-induced senescence

Functional and Integrative Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 693-703

  Monteiro, Filipa ^a   Sebastiana, Mónica ^a   Figueiredo, Andreia ^a   Sousa, Lisete ^a   Cotrim, Helena C ^a   Pais, Maria Salomé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Alkene biosynthetic gene; Labellum; Ophrys fusca; Senescence; Sexual deception; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LABELLUM; NONHUMAN; OPHRYS FUSCA; ORCHIDACEAE; PETAL; PLANT GENE; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DECEPTION; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

HEXAPODA; OPHRYS FUSCA; ORCHIDACEAE;

ALKENES; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; ORCHIDACEAE; POLLINATION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84877040702     PISSN: 1438793X     EISSN: 14387948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10142-012-0288-x     Document Type: Article

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