Deep transcriptome sequencing provides new insights into the structural and functional organization of the wheat genome

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pingault, Lise ^a,b   Choulet, Frédéric ^a,b   Alberti, Adriana ^c   Glover, Natasha ^a,b,f   Wincker, Patrick ^c,d,e   Feuillet, Catherine ^a,b,g   Paux, Etienne ^a,b  

^a Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d Genoscope   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^f Bayer Cropscience Belgium   (Belgium)

^g BAYER CROPSCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3B; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WHEAT; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT GENE; PROCEDURES;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRITICUM;

EID: 84939152847     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0601-9     Document Type: Article

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