Transcriptional profiling of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) roots indicates down-regulation of lignin biosynthesis and up-regulation of starch biosynthesis at an early stage of storage root formation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Firon, Nurit ^a   LaBonte, Don ^b   Villordon, Arthur ^c   Kfir, Yanir ^a   Solis, Julio ^b   Lapis, Evgenia ^a   Perlman, Temima Schnitzer ^d   Doron Faigenboim, Adi ^a   Hetzroni, Amots ^a   Althan, Leviah ^a   Nadir, Lahan Adani ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LSU AgCenter Sweet Potato Research Station   (United States)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fibrous root; Ipomoea batatas; Lignin biosynthesis; Starch biosynthesis; Storage root initiation; Transcription profiling

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; LIGNIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWEET POTATO; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION;

CELL DIVISION; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IPOMOEA BATATAS; LIGNIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PLANT ROOTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STARCH; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

IPOMOEA BATATAS;

EID: 84880002200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-460     Document Type: Article

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