Meta-analysis and transcriptome profiling reveal hub genes for soybean seed storage composition during seed development

Plant Cell and Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 2109-2127

  Qi, Zhaoming ^a   Zhang, Zhanguo ^a   Wang, Zhongyu ^a   Yu, Jingyao ^a   Qin, Hongtao ^a   Mao, Xinrui ^a   Jiang, Hongwei ^a   Xin, Dawei ^a   Yin, Zhengong ^a   Zhu, Rongsheng ^a   Liu, Chunyan ^a   Yu, Wei ^b   Hu, Zhenbang ^a   Wu, Xiaoxia ^a   Liu, Jun ^b   Chen, Qingshan ^a  

^a NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

transcriptome (RNA seq); weighted gene coexpression network analysis (WGCNA)

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESSENTIAL OIL; FATTY ACID; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; META-ANALYSIS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN; RNA; SEED SET; SOYBEAN;

GLYCINE MAX;

FATTY ACID; SEED STORAGE PROTEIN; SOYBEAN OIL;

CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT SEED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN;

FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEED STORAGE PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOYBEAN OIL; SOYBEANS;

EID: 85045263045     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.13175     Document Type: Article

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