Sexual dimorphic floral development in dioecious plants revealed by transcriptome, phytohormone, and DNA methylation analysis in Populus tomentosa

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 559-576

  Song, Yuepeng ^a,b   Ma, Kaifeng ^a,b   Ci, Dong ^a,b   Chen, Qingqing ^a,b   Tian, Jiaxing ^a,b   Zhang, Deqiang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Andromonoecious poplars; DNA methylation; Phytohormone; Sex specific floral development; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHORMONE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; POPULUS; SEASON; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

DNA METHYLATION; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; POPULUS; SEASONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

POPULUS; POPULUS TOMENTOSA;

EID: 84888000150     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-013-0108-2     Document Type: Article

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