Carotenoid biosynthetic genes in Brassica rapa: Comparative genomic analysis, phylogenetic analysis, and expression profiling

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Li, Peirong ^a   Zhang, Shujiang ^a   Zhang, Shifan ^a   Li, Fei ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Cheng, Feng ^a   Wu, Jian ^a   Wang, Xiaowu ^a   Sun, Rifei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Biosynthetic pathway; Brassica rapa; Carotenoid biosynthetic genes; Comparative genomics; Expression analysis

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; PLANT PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BRASSICA RAPA; CALLUS (PLANT); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; FLOWER; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LEAF; PLANT METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PLANT TISSUE; SILIQUE; SYNTENY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA; BRASSICA RAPA; PHYLLANTHUS (ANGIOSPERM);

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BRASSICA RAPA; CAROTENOIDS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SYNTENY;

EID: 84934756950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1655-5     Document Type: Article

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