A genome-wide screen for ethylene-induced Ethylene Response Factors (ERFs) in hybrid aspen stem identifies ERF genes that modify stem growth and wood properties

New Phytologist

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 511-522

  Vahala, Jorma ^a   Felten, Judith ^b   Love, Jonathan ^b   Gorzsás, András ^b   Gerber, Lorenz ^b   Lamminmäki, Airi ^a   Kangasjärvi, Jaakko ^a   Sundberg, Björn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ethylene; Ethylene Response Factor (ERF); Populus; Tension wood; Transcript analysis; Wood development; Xylem

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; GENOME; HYBRID; STEM; WOOD; XYLEM;

POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA;

1 AMINOCYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLIC ACID; 1-AMINOCYCLOPROPANE-1-CARBOXYLIC ACID; AMINO ACID; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR (ERF); GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PLANT GENOME; PLANT STEM; POPULUS; TENSION WOOD; TRANSCRIPT ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WOOD; WOOD DEVELOPMENT; XYLEM;

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR (ERF); POPULUS; TENSION WOOD; TRANSCRIPT ANALYSIS; WOOD DEVELOPMENT; XYLEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS, CYCLIC; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 84884412408     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12386     Document Type: Article

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