Transcriptome profiling of khat (Catha edulis) and Ephedra sinica reveals gene candidates potentially involved in amphetamine-type alkaloid biosynthesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Groves, Ryan A ^a   Hagel, Jillian M ^a   Zhang, Ye ^b   Kilpatrick, Korey ^c,d   Levy, Asaf ^e,f   Marsolais, Frédéric ^c,d   Lewinsohn, Efraim ^f   Sensen, Christoph W ^b   Facchini, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMPHETAMINE TYPE ALKALOID; CATHINONE; EPHEDRINE; NOREPHEDRINE; NORPSEUDOEPHEDRINE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALKALOID;

AAO4 GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BALDH GENE; BDH GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATHA EDULIS; CHD GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; EPHEDRA SINICA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE ONTOLOGY; KAT1 GENE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NMT GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LEAF; PLANT TISSUE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RNA ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TA GENE; THDPC GENE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; CATHA; DATA MINING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM;

CATHA EDULIS; EPHEDRA; EPHEDRA SINICA;

ALKALOIDS; CATHA; DATA MINING; DATABASES, GENETIC; EPHEDRA SINICA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PHYLOGENY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84926386139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119701     Document Type: Article

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