Comparative interrogation of the developing xylem transcriptomes of two wood-forming species: Populus trichocarpa and Eucalyptus grandis

New Phytologist

Volumn 206, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1391-1405

  Hefer, Charles A ^a   Mizrachi, Eshchar ^b   Myburg, Alexander A ^b   Douglas, Carl J ^a   Mansfield, Shawn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Populus trichocarpa; Eucalyptus grandis; Gene expression; MRNA Seq; Secondary cell wall; Xylem transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DICOTYLEDON; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; GENE EXPRESSION; WOOD; XYLEM;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS; POPULUS; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA;

TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUCALYPTUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; POPULUS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WOOD; XYLEM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUCALYPTUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PLANT PROTEINS; POPULUS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 84928902509     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13277     Document Type: Article

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