Allelic variation in a cellulose synthase gene (PtoCesa4) associated with growth and wood properties in Populus tomentosa

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2069-2084

  Du, Qingzhang ^a   Xu, Baohua ^a   Pan, Wei ^a   Gong, Chenrui ^a   Wang, Qingshi ^a   Tian, Jiaxing ^a   Li, Bailian ^a,b   Zhang, Deqiang ^a  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Linkage analysis; Linkage disequilibrium; Multi locus association models; Populus tomentosa; RNA transcript analysis; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; LIGNOCELLULOSE; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; POPULUS; POPULUS TOMENTOSA; PTOCESA4 GENE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WOOD; XYLEM;

LINKAGE ANALYSIS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MULTI-LOCUS ASSOCIATION MODELS; POPULUS TOMENTOSA; RNA TRANSCRIPT ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HAPLOTYPES; LIGNIN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULUS; WOOD;

EID: 84889058606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.113.007724     Document Type: Article

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