Genomic foundation of starch-to-lipid switch in oleaginous chlorella spp

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2444-2461

  Fan, Jianhua ^a   Ning, Kang ^b   Zeng, Xiaowei ^b   Luo, Yuanchan ^a   Wang, Dongmei ^b   Hu, Jianqiang ^b   Li, Jing ^b   Xu, Hui ^a   Huang, Jianke ^a   Wan, Minxi ^a   Wang, Weiliang ^a   Zhang, Daojing ^a   Shen, Guomin ^a   Run, Conglin ^a   Liao, Junjie ^a   Fang, Lei ^a   Huang, Shi ^b   Jing, Xiaoyan ^b   Su, Xiaoquan ^b   Wang, Anhui ^b   Bai, Lili ^c   Hu, Zanmin ^c   Xu, Jian ^b   Li, Yuanguang ^a   more..

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FATTY ACID; STARCH;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHLORELLA; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HETEROTROPHY; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON; CHLORELLA; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FATTY ACIDS; GENOMICS; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; LIPID METABOLISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STARCH;

EID: 84949571274     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01174     Document Type: Article

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