De Novo Assembly, Functional Annotation and Comparative Analysis of Withania somnifera Leaf and Root Transcriptomes to Identify Putative Genes Involved in the Withanolides Biosynthesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gupta, Parul ^a   Goel, Ridhi ^a   Pathak, Sumya ^a   Srivastava, Apeksha ^a   Singh, Surya Pratap ^c   Sangwan, Rajender Singh ^b   Asif, Mehar Hasan ^a   Trivedi, Prabodh Kumar ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

^c BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WITHAFERIN A; WITHANOLIDE; WITHANOLIDE A;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; POTATO; PYROSEQUENCING; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; TOMATO; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MEDICINE, AYURVEDIC; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; TRANSCRIPTOME; WITHANIA; WITHANOLIDES;

EID: 84877245681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062714     Document Type: Article

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