Natural variation of plant metabolism: Genetic mechanisms, interpretive caveats, and evolutionary and mechanistic insights

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1456-1468

  Soltis, Nicole E ^a   Kliebenstein, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT GENOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOTYPE; METABOLOMICS; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84946240108     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01108     Document Type: Article

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