RNA-seq based de novo transcriptome assembly and gene discovery of Cistanche deserticola fleshy stem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Li, Yuli ^a,b   Wang, Xiliang ^a,b   Chen, Tingting ^a   Yao, Fuwen ^a,b   Li, Cuiping ^a   Tang, Qingli ^c   Sun, Min ^a   Sun, Gaoyuan ^a   Hu, Songnian ^a   Yu, Jun ^a   Song, Shuhui ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HongKui CongRong Group   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGNIN; PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE; PHENYLETHANOID GLYCOSIDE; PLANT GLYCOSIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CISTANCHE DESERTICOLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRIN GENE; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PAL GENE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT RESPONSE; PLANT STEM; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BIOLOGY; CISTANCHE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

CISTANCHE DESERTICOLA;

CISTANCHE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA-LYASE; PLANT STEMS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84929192207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125722     Document Type: Article

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