De novo sequencing of the Hypericum perforatum L. flower transcriptome to identify potential genes that are related to plant reproduction sensu lato

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Galla, Giulio ^a   Vogel, Heiko ^b   Sharbel, Timothy F ^c   Barcaccia, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apomixis; Apospory; Flower; Hypericum perforatum; Reproductive organs

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; PLANT PROTEIN; PLANT RNA;

APOMIXIS; ARTICLE; BUD; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLOWER; GAMETE; GAMETOGENESIS; GAMETOPHYTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; MEIOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; ONTOLOGY; PARTHENOGENESIS; PISTIL; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPOROGENESIS; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HYPERICUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

HYPERICUM PERFORATUM;

APOMIXIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HYPERICUM; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84930665783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1439-y     Document Type: Article

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