De novo characterization of fall dormant and nondormant alfalfa (Medicago sativa L) leaf transcriptome and identification of candidate genes related to fall dormancy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Senhao ^a   Shi, Yinghua ^a   Cheng, Ningning ^a   Du, Hongqi ^a   Fan, Wenna ^a   Wang, Chengzhang ^a  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICROSATELLITE DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORMANCY; FALL DORMANCY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; LEAF TISSUE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT HEIGHT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VARIETAS; BIOLOGY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT LEAF; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DORMANCY; PLANT LEAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84925762311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122170     Document Type: Article

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