Glycyrrhiza uralensis transcriptome landscape and study of phytochemicals

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 697-710

  Ramilowski, Jordan A ^a   Sawai, Satoru ^b   Seki, Hikaru ^b,c   Mochida, Keiichi ^b,d,e   Yoshida, Takuhiro ^b   Sakurai, Tetsuya ^b   Muranaka, Toshiya ^b,c   Saito, Kazuki ^b,f   Daub, Carsten O ^a,g  

^a RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Plant Science Center   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Database; De novo assembly; Glycyrrhiza uralensis; Phytochemicals; RNA Seq; Transcriptome profiling

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; PLANT RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL VACUOLE; CHEMISTRY; DATA BASE; DE NOVO ASSEMBLY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA-SEQ; TRANSCRIPTOME PROFILING;

DATABASE; DE NOVO ASSEMBLY; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; PHYTOCHEMICALS; RNA-SEQ; TRANSCRIPTOME PROFILING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DATABASES AS TOPIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYTOCHEMICALS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTOME; VACUOLES;

EID: 84877945315     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct057     Document Type: Article

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