De novo transcriptome assembly and comprehensive expression profiling in Crocus sativus to gain insights into apocarotenoid biosynthesis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Jain, Mukesh ^a,b   Srivastava, Prabhakar Lal ^a   Verma, Mohit ^a   Ghangal, Rajesh ^a   Garg, Rohini ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOCAROTENAL; CAROTENOID; PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CROCUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CAROTENOIDS; CROCUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84960092984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22456     Document Type: Article

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