Functional Analysis of Sporophytic Transcripts Repressed by the Female Gametophyte in the Ovule of Arabidopsis thaliana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Armenta Medina, Alma ^a   Huanca Mamani, Wilson ^a,b   Sanchez León, Nidia ^a   Rodríguez Arévalo, Isaac ^a   Vielle Calzada, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACT2 GENE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIF1 GENE; FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; IOREMPTE GENE; MEGASPORE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVULE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GAMETOGENESIS; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SPOROPHYTE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UPREGULATION; ARABIDOPSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

PRIMER DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GAMETOGENESIS, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVULE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84886073806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076977     Document Type: Article

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