Genome-wide computational prediction and analysis of core promoter elements across plant monocots and dicots

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Kumari, Sunita ^a   Ware, Doreen ^a,b  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b ROBERT W HOLLEY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BRACHYPODIUM; COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTION; CORE PROMOTER ELEMENT; DICOT; DNA FREE ENERGY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAPE; JAPONICA RICE; MAIZE; MONOCOT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PLANT GENOME; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; SORGHUM; SOYBEAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; POPULUS; RICE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; DICOTYLEDONEAE; GLYCINE MAX; JAPONICA; LILIOPSIDA; ORYZA SATIVA; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; SORGHUM BICOLOR; VITIS VINIFERA; ZEA MAYS;

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRACHYPODIUM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; POPULUS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SORGHUM; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84911440598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079011     Document Type: Article

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