Transcriptome sequencing and microarray design for functional genomics in the extremophile arabidopsis relative thellungiella salsuginea (eutrema salsugineum)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Yang P ^a,b   Giorgi, Federico M ^a,c   Lohse, Marc ^a   Kvederaviciute, Kotryna ^d   Klages, Sven ^e   Usadel, Björn ^a,f,g   Meskiene, Irute ^d,h   Reinhardt, Richard ^e   Hincha, Dirk K ^a  

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

^b Felda Agricultural Services Sdn Bhd   (Malaysia)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^f RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^h MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Cold acclimation; Gene annotation; LEA proteins; MAP kinases; Microarray design; microRNAs; Protein phosphatases; Thellungiella salsuginea; Transcriptome sequencing

Indexed keywords

LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD TOLERANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT STRESS; PYROSEQUENCING; THELLUNGIELLA SALSUGINEA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUTREMA; THELLUNGIELLA; THELLUNGIELLA SALSUGINEA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICACEAE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SALT-TOLERANT PLANTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84887378836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-793     Document Type: Article

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