Laser Assisted Microdissection, an Efficient Technique to Understand Tissue Specific Gene Expression Patterns and Functional Genomics in Plants

Molecular Biotechnology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 299-308

  Gautam, Vibhav ^a   Sarkar, Ananda ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Genomics; Laser assisted microdissection (LAM); RNA isolation; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

GENES; MICRODISSECTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; TISSUE;

GENOMICS; HETEROGENEOUS POPULATIONS; LASER-ASSISTED; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; RNA ISOLATION; TISSUE-SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

PLANT RNA; PROTEOME;

CELL SIZE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; LASER MICRODISSECTION; LASER MICRODISSECTION SYSTEM; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; REVIEW; RNA ISOLATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; MICRODISSECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PROCEDURES;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOMICS; MERISTEM; MICRODISSECTION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS;

EID: 84925857260     PISSN: 10736085     EISSN: 15590305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12033-014-9824-3     Document Type: Review

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