Genome-wide investigation and transcriptome analysis of the WRKY gene family in Gossypium

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 151-171

  Ding, Mingquan ^a,b   Chen, Jiadong ^a   Jiang, Yurong ^a   Lin, Lifeng ^c   Cao, YueFen ^a   Wang, Minhua ^a   Zhang, Yuting ^a   Rong, Junkang ^a,b   Ye, Wuwei ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c Nanosphere Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber development; G. raimondii; Genome wide analysis; WRKY gene family

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; CYTOLOGY; DIPLOIDY; EXON; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM ARBOREUM; GOSSYPIUM RAIMONDII; INTRON; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT GENE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFYING SELECTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WRKY GENE;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACIDS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; COTTON FIBER; CYTOLOGY; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GOSSYPIUM; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOFTWARE;

GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM ARBOREUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; GOSSYPIUM RAIMONDII;

EID: 84964199527     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: 16174623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-014-0904-7     Document Type: Article

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