Maize pan-transcriptome provides novel insights into genome complexity and quantitative trait variation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Jin, Minliang ^a   Liu, Haijun ^a   He, Cheng ^b,c   Fu, Junjie ^c   Xiao, Yingjie ^a   Wang, Yuebin ^a   Xie, Weibo ^a   Wang, Guoying ^c   Yan, Jianbing ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MAIZE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84953241679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18936     Document Type: Article

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