Indications of heightened constitutive or primed host response affecting the lignin pathway transcripts and phenolics in mature Norway spruce clones

Tree Physiology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1137-1147

  Fossdal, Carl Gunnar ^a   Nagy, Nina Elisabeth ^a   Hietala, Ari Mikko ^a   Kvaalen, Harald ^a   Slimestad, Rune ^b   Woodward, Steve ^c   Solheim, Halvor ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b Særheim Research Centre   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterobasidion annosum; HPLC; lignin; phenolics; Picea abies; qRT PCR; real time RT PCR; stilbenes; taxifolin

Indexed keywords

LIGNIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT RNA; PRIMER DNA;

CLONAL ORGANISM; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIGNIN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECONDARY METABOLITE; WOUNDING;

ARTICLE; BARK; BASIDIOMYCETES; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRUCE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CELL WALL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGNIN; NORWAY; PHENOLS; PICEA; PLANT BARK; PLANT DISEASES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HETEROBASIDION ANNOSUM; HETEROBASIDION PARVIPORUM; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84866358264     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps073     Document Type: Article

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