Comparative transcriptome analysis of white and purple potato to identify genes involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Yuhui ^a   Lin Wang, Kui ^b   Deng, Cecilia ^b   Warran, Ben ^b   Wang, Li ^a   Yu, Bin ^a   Yang, Hongyu ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Espley, Richard V ^b   Zhang, Junlian ^a   Wang, Di ^a   Allan, Andrew C ^b,c  

^a GANSU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AN1 GENE; ARTICLE; BHLH1 GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INDEL MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT TUBER; POTATO; PURPLE POTATO; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UFGT GENE; VALIDATION STUDY; WHITE POTATO; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

ANTHOCYANINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84936860025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129148     Document Type: Article

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