The root transcriptome for North American ginseng assembled and profiled across seasonal development

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Di ^a,b   Austin, Ryan S ^b   Zhou, Sijun ^a,b   Brown, Dan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ginsenoside; Next generation sequencing; North American ginseng; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; DEHYDRIN 4; GINSENOSIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MAJOR LATEX LIKE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNASE LIKE MAJOR STORAGE PROTEIN; SPECIFIC ABUNDANT PROTEIN; TONOPLAST INTRINSIC PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BETA AMYRIN SYNTHASE GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BUDDING; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHROME P450 GENE; DAMMARENEDIOL SYNTHASE GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FLOWERING; FRUIT DROP; FRUITING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE GENE; LEAF SENESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; PLANT METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REFERENCE DATABASE; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SQUALENE EXPOXIDASE GENE; SQUALENE SYNTHASE 1 GENE; SQUALENE SYNTHASE 2 GENE; TRANSCRIPTOME ASSEMBLY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PANAX; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84883246010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-564     Document Type: Article

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