High throughput RNA sequencing of a hybrid maize and its parents shows different mechanisms responsive to nitrogen limitation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bi, Yong Mei ^a   Meyer, Ann ^a   Downs, Gregory S ^a   Shi, Xuejiang ^b   El kereamy, Ashraf ^a,c   Lukens, Lewis ^a   Rothstein, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Allelic expression; Hybrid; Inbred; Maize; MRNA Seq; Nitrogen limitation; Nitrogen use efficiency

Indexed keywords

CHIMERA; CYTOKININS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENOME, PLANT; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NITROGEN; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84892943923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-77     Document Type: Article

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