Selection and validation of reference genes for transcript normalization in gene expression studies in Catharanthus roseus

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-25

  Pollier, Jacob ^a,b   Vanden Bossche, Robin ^a,b   Rischer, Heiko ^c   Goossens, Alain ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

BestKeeper; Catharanthus roseus; GeNorm; NormFinder; QPCR; Reference gene; Transcript normalization

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

CATHARANTHUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; PLANT GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CATHARANTHUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PLANT; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84904753311     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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