Transcriptome profiling of fruit development and maturation in Chinese white pear (Pyrus bretschneideri Rehd)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Xie, Min ^a   Huang, Ying ^a   Zhang, Yanping ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Yang, Hua ^a   Yu, Oliver ^a   Dai, Wenhao ^b   Fang, Congbing ^a  

^a ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHINESE WHITE PEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MATURATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEAR; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT METABOLISM; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PYRUS;

PYRUS; PYRUS X BRETSCHNEIDERI;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; GENE ONTOLOGY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84887962202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-823     Document Type: Article

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