Selection of reliable reference genes for quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction studies in maize grains

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1869-1877

  Galli, Vanessa ^a,b   da Silva Messias, Rafael ^a   dos Anjos e Silva, Sérgio Delmar ^a   Rombaldi, Cesar Valmor ^c  

^a EMBRAPA CLIMA TEMPERADO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

GeNorm; NormFinder; Reference genes; RT qPCR; Zea mays L.

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METHODOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARD;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEEDS; SOFTWARE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84888046803     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-013-1499-x     Document Type: Article

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