Global monitoring of autumn gene expression within and among phenotypically divergent populations of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis)

New Phytologist

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-122

  Holliday, Jason A ^a   Ralph, Steven G ^b   White, Richard ^a   Bohlmann, Jörg ^a,b   Aitken, Sally N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cold hardiness; Genetic cline; Microarray; Real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANNUAL PLANT; ARRAY; AUTUMN; CLINE; COLD TOLERANCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DIVERGENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDIZATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MONITORING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; COLD; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; SEEDLING; SPRUCE; TIME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PICEA; PLANT LEAVES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SEEDLING; TIME FACTORS;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 40349116120     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02346.x     Document Type: Article

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