Novel Insights into Tree Biology and Genome Evolution as Revealed Through Genomics

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 457-483

  Neale, David B ^a   Martínez García, Pedro J ^a   De La Torre, Amanda R ^a   Montanari, Sara ^a   Wei, Xiao Xin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Fruit quality; Genome size; Perennialism; Transposable elements; Woody plants

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FRUIT; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES; TREE; WOOD;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FRUIT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 85018994550     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042916-041049     Document Type: Review

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