Utility of RNA Sequencing for Analysis of Maize Reproductive Transcriptomes

Plant Genome

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Davidson, Rebecca M ^a   Hansey, Candice N ^a   Gowda, Malali ^a   Childs, Kevin L ^a   Lin, Haining ^a   Vaillancourt, Brieanne ^a   Sekhon, Rajandeep S ^b   de Leon, Natalia ^b   Kaeppler, Shawn M ^b   Jiang, Ning ^a   Buell, C Robin ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 85167502746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3835/plantgenome2011.05.0015     Document Type: Article

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