Comparative transcriptome analysis of different chemotypes elucidates withanolide biosynthesis pathway from medicinal plant Withania somnifera

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gupta, Parul ^a   Goel, Ridhi ^a,c   Agarwal, Aditya Vikram ^a   Asif, Mehar Hasan ^a,c   Sangwan, Neelam Singh ^b   Sangwan, Rajender Singh ^b   Trivedi, Prabodh Kumar ^a,c  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

^c ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACSIR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; WITHANOLIDE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; WITHANIA;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME; WITHANIA; WITHANOLIDES;

EID: 84951266237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18611     Document Type: Article

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