Biochemical and transcriptome analyses of a novel chlorophyll-deficient chlorina tea plant cultivar

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Lu ^a,b,c   Yue, Chuan ^a,c   Cao, Hongli ^a,c   Zhou, Yanhua ^a,c   Zeng, Jianming ^a,b,c   Yang, Yajun ^a,b,c   Wang, Xinchao ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b National Center for Tea Improvement   (China)

^c BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Chlorina; Chlorophyll deficiency; Gene expression; Microarray; Tea plant (Camellia sinensis)

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT LEAF;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CHLOROPHYLL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84988693203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12870-014-0352-x     Document Type: Article

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