High-throughput sequencing and de novo transcriptome assembly of Swertia japonica to identify genes involved in the biosynthesis of therapeutic metabolites

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2091-2111

  Rai, Amit ^a   Nakamura, Michimi ^a   Takahashi, Hiroki ^a   Suzuki, Hideyuki ^b   Saito, Kazuki ^a   Yamazaki, Mami ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

MEP biosynthesis pathways; S. japonica transcriptome assembly; Secoiridoid metabolic pathways; Swertia genus; Swertiamarin

Indexed keywords

AMAROGENTIN; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; IRIDOID; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PYRONE DERIVATIVE; SWERTIAMARIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; PROCEDURES; SWERTIA; UPREGULATION;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENES, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; IRIDOID GLUCOSIDES; IRIDOIDS; METABOLOME; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; PYRONES; SWERTIA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84976892824     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-016-2021-z     Document Type: Article

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