Comparative expression profiling reveals gene functions in female meiosis and gametophyte development in Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 615-628

  Zhao, Lihua ^a,b   He, Jiangman ^b,c   Cai, Hanyang ^a   Lin, Haiyan ^d   Li, Yanqiang ^c,d   Liu, Renyi ^e   Yang, Zhenbiao ^e   Qin, Yuan ^a,b  

^a FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; female meiocyte; megasporogenesis; meiosis; transcriptome

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; FEMALE MEIOCYTE; MEGASPOROGENESIS; MEIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMES;

PLANTS (BOTANY); GENE EXPRESSION;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ATDMC1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME P450; KLUH PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RECA PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; OVULE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GAMETOGENESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; GAMETOGENESIS, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; OVULE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REC A RECOMBINASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84939253610     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12657     Document Type: Article

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