Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) pollen allergenicity: SuperSAGE transcriptomic analysis upon elevated CO2 and drought stress

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  El Kelish, Amr ^a,b   Zhao, Feng ^a   Heller, Werner ^a   Durner, Jörg ^a,c   Winkler, J B ^a   Behrendt, Heidrun ^a,d   Traidl Hoffmann, Claudia ^c,d   Horres, Ralf ^e   Pfeifer, Matthias ^a   Frank, Ulrike ^a,d   Ernst, Dieter ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d CK CARE   (Switzerland)

^e GENXPRO GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergen; Allergy; Ambrosia artemisiifolia; CO2; Drought; Flavonoids; Pollen; Ragweed; Scanning electron microscopy; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CARBON DIOXIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

DOWN REGULATION; DROUGHT; DRUG EFFECTS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; RAGWEED; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SECONDARY METABOLISM; TISSUE SURVIVAL; UPREGULATION;

ALLERGENS; AMBROSIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, REVERSE-PHASE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DOWN-REGULATION; DROUGHTS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; POLLEN; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SECONDARY METABOLISM; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TISSUE SURVIVAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84902914911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-176     Document Type: Article

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