De novo assembly and characterization of fruit transcriptome in Litchi chinensis Sonn and analysis of differentially regulated genes in fruit in response to shading

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Li, Caiqin ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Huang, Xuming ^a   Li, Jiang ^b   Wang, Huicong ^a   Li, Jianguo ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

Author keywords

Abscission; DTA; Fruit; Litchi chinensis; RNA Seq; Shade; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; MESSENGER RNA;

ABSCISSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRUIT; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC REGULATION; LYCHEE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT SHADING; PROTEIN DATABASE; RNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUNLIGHT;

FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LITCHI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84882253104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-552     Document Type: Article

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