RNA sequencing reveals the complex regulatory network in the maize kernel

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Fu, Junjie ^a   Cheng, Yanbing ^b   Linghu, Jingjing ^c   Yang, Xiaohong ^c   Kang, Lin ^b   Zhang, Zuxin ^d   Zhang, Jie ^c   He, Cheng ^c   Du, Xuemei ^c   Peng, Zhiyu ^b   Wang, Bo ^c   Zhai, Lihong ^d   Dai, Changmin ^b   Xu, Jiabao ^b   Wang, Weidong ^c   Li, Xiangru ^b   Zheng, Jun ^a   Chen, Li ^b   Luo, Longhai ^b   Liu, Junjie ^b   Qian, Xiaoju ^b   Yan, Jianbing ^d   Wang, Jun ^b   Wang, Guoying ^a   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA;

CROP YIELD; FOOD QUALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; MAIZE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INBRED STRAIN; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEED KERNEL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84890685736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3832     Document Type: Article

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