Identification of putative candidate genes for juvenile wood density in Pinus radiata

Tree Physiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1046-1057

  Li, Xinguo ^a   Wu, Harry X ^a,b   Southerton, Simon G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cell wall biosynthesis; lignin; microfibril angle; SilviScan; softwood; transcriptional profiling; xylogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CELL ORGANELLE; CELLULOSE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GENE; HORMONE; JUVENILE; LIGNIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN; SIGNALING; WOOD; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PINE; PLANT GENE; PLANT STEM; TREE; WOOD; XYLEM;

ACTINS; CELL WALL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYMES; GENES, PLANT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PINUS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TREES; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 84865171132     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps060     Document Type: Article

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