Araport11: a complete reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana reference genome

Plant Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 789-804

  Cheng, Chia Yi ^a   Krishnakumar, Vivek ^a   Chan, Agnes P ^a   Thibaud Nissen, Françoise ^b   Schobel, Seth ^a   Town, Christopher D ^a  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

annotation; Arabidopsis; transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; RNA; TISSUE;

ANNOTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; EXPRESSION PROFILE; PROTEIN-CODING GENES; TRANSCRIPTOMES; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

MODELS; PLANTS; RESEARCH;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PLANT GENOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85012986069     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13415     Document Type: Article

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