Journal article

An integrated genomic and metabolomic framework for cell wall biology in rice

Kai Guo, Weihua Zou, Yongqing Feng, Mingliang Zhang, Jing Zhang, Fen Tu, Guosheng Xie, Lingqiang Wang, Yangting Wang, Sebastian Klie, Staffan Persson, Liangcai Peng

BMC GENOMICS | BMC | Published : 2014

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Plant cell walls are complex structures that full-fill many diverse functions during plant growth and development. It is therefore not surprising that thousands of gene products are involved in cell wall synthesis and maintenance. However, functional association for the majority of these gene products remains obscure. One useful approach to infer biological associations is via transcriptional coordination, or co-expression of genes. This approach has proved useful for several biological processes. Nevertheless, combining co-expression with other large-scale measurements may improve the biological inferences. RESULTS: In this study, we used a combined approach of co-expression and..

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Grants

Awarded by 111 Project


Awarded by National Natural Science foundation of China


Awarded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation


Awarded by 973 Specific Pre-project


Awarded by National Transgenic Project


Awarded by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities


Funding Acknowledgements

This study was supported in part by grants from the 111 Project (B08032), the projects (31171524 & 31100140) of National Natural Science foundation of China, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (20090460964), the 973 Specific Pre-project (2010CB134401), the National Transgenic Project (2009ZX08009-119B) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2011PY047). S.P. and S.K. thank the Max-Planck Gesellschaft for financial support.