Co-expression and co-responses: Within and beyond transcription

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Tohge, Takayuki ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Correlation analysis; Gene annotation; Gene expression; Network analysis; Plant metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881317781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00248     Document Type: Review

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