Influence of water deficit on the molecular responses of Pinus contorta x Pinus banksiana mature trees to infection by the mountain pine beetle fungal associate, Grosmannia clavigera

Tree Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1220-1239

  Arango Velez, Adriana ^a   Galindo González, Leonardo M ^a   Meents, Miranda J ^a   El Kayal, Walid ^a   Cooke, Barry J ^b   Linsky, Jean ^a   Lusebrink, Inka ^a   Cooke, Janice E K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquaporin; Blue stain fungi; Chitinase; Dendroctonus ponderosae; DREB; Drought; Jack pine; Lodgepole pine; Na ve host; Range expansion; Systemic; Terpene synthase

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LESION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PLANT DEFENSE; RANGE EXPANSION; WATER STRESS;

COLEOPTERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; FUNGI; PINUS BANKSIANA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO;

CARBON; CHITINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; TERPENE SYNTHASE; TRANSFERASE; WATER;

ANIMAL; BEETLE; CHIMERA; CYTOLOGY; DEHYDRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPHIOSTOMATALES; PHLOEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT DISEASE;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; CARBON; CHIMERA; CHITINASE; DEHYDRATION; ENVIRONMENT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPHIOSTOMATALES; PHLOEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PINUS; PLANT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER;

EID: 84923333716     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpt101     Document Type: Article

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