Identification of cytokinin-responsive genes using microarray meta-analysis and RNA-seq in Arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 272-294

  Bhargava, Apurva ^a   Clabaugh, Ivory ^b   To, Jenn P ^a   Maxwell, Bridey B ^a   Chiang, Yi Hsuan ^c   Schaller, G Eric ^c   Loraine, Ann ^b   Kieber, Joseph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CYTOKININ; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; META ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA SPLICING; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOKININS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UP-REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84877069565     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.217026     Document Type: Article

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