Extensive Modulation of the Transcription Factor Transcriptome during Somatic Embryogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Gliwicka, Marta ^a   Nowak, Katarzyna ^a   Balazadeh, Salma ^b,c   Mueller Roeber, Bernd ^b,c   Gaj, Malgorzata D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CULTURE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC STABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT STRESS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ARABIDOPSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84880397137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069261     Document Type: Article

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