Differential expression patterns of non-symbiotic hemoglobins in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris)

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 834-844

  Leiva Eriksson, Nélida ^a   Pin, Pierre A ^b,f   Kraft, Thomas ^b   Dohm, Juliane C ^c,d,e   Minoche, André E ^c,d,e   Himmelbauer, Heinz ^c,d,e   Bülow, Leif ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Syngenta Seeds AB   (Sweden)

^c CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^f Syngenta Seeds SAS   (France)

Author keywords

Beta vulgaris (sugar beet); carbon allocation; chloroplast transit peptide; non symbiotic hemoglobins (nsHbs); photoperiod; vernalization

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BEET; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA VULGARIS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HEMOGLOBINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84898912347     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcu027     Document Type: Article

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