Deep sequencing of the Mexican avocado transcriptome, an ancient angiosperm with a high content of fatty acids

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ibarra Laclette, Enrique ^a,b   Méndez Bravo, Alfonso ^a,b   Pérez Torres, Claudia Anahí ^a,b   Albert, Victor A ^c   Mockaitis, Keithanne ^d   Kilaru, Aruna ^e,f   López Gómez, Rodolfo ^g   Cervantes Luevano, Jacob Israel ^a   Herrera Estrella, Luis ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME; PLANT PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; AVOCADO; BUD; CLIMACTERIUM; FLOWER; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT RIPENING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; LIPID METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; POST CLIMACTERIC; PRE CLIMACTERIC; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; PERSEA; PROCEDURES;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PERSEA AMERICANA; PERSEA AMERICANA DRYMIFOLIA;

FATTY ACIDS; FLOWERS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PERSEA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84938839380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1775-y     Document Type: Article

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