Metabolic GWAS-based dissection of genetic bases underlying the diversity of plant metabolism

Plant Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 91-100

  Fang, Chuanying ^a   Luo, Jie ^a,b  

^a HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

genetic basis; metabolic diversity; metabolic genome wide association study; metabolome; multi dimensional analysis; quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

DISSECTION; GENES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS;

GENETIC BASIS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES; METABOLIC DIVERSITY; METABOLOMES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

METABOLISM;

ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENT; GENES; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; REVIEW; TOOLS;

GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PLANT GENOME; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

GENOME, PLANT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85056347025     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14097     Document Type: Review

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