Association of allelic variation in PtoXET16A with growth and wood properties in populus tomentosa

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 16949-16974

  Wang, Bowen ^a   Zhang, Deqiang ^a  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Intron splicing site variation; Linkage disequilibrium; Populus tomentosa; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Xyloglucan endo transglycosylase

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; CAMBIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHLOEM; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; POPULUS; POPULUS TOMENTOSA; PTOXET16A GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WOOD; X RAY DIFFRACTION; XYLEM; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

POPULUS TOMENTOSA;

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ISOPROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; XYLOGLUCAN - XYLOGLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL WALL; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HAPLOTYPES; INTRONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULUS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WOOD;

EID: 84907882608     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms150916949     Document Type: Article

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