Use of transcriptome sequencing to understand the pistillate flowering in hickory (Carya cathayensis Sarg.)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Huang, You Jun ^a   Liu, Li Li ^b   Huang, Jian Qin ^a   Wang, Zheng Jia ^a   Chen, Fang Fang ^a   Zhang, Qi Xiang ^a   Zheng, Bing Song ^a   Chen, Ming ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carya cathayensis Sarg; Co expression network; Floral development; Hickory; High throughput data analysis; Seasonal flowering

Indexed keywords

GIBBERELLIN; SUCROSE; TRANSCRIPTOME; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CARYA; CARYA CATHAYENSIS; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLORAL GENE; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; FLOWERING; FLOWERING GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOME ANALYSIS; HICKORY; LIGHT STRESS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PISTILLATE; PISTILLATE FLOWERING; PLANT GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; VERNALIZATION; WOODY PLANT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TIME;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CARYA; CARYA CATHAYENSIS;

CARYA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84885119262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-691     Document Type: Article

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