A transcriptional roadmap to wood formation

AUTOR(ES)

Hertzberg, Magnus

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The large vascular meristem of poplar trees with its highly organized secondary xylem enables the boundaries between different developmental zones to be easily distinguished. This property of wood-forming tissues allowed us to determine a unique tissue-specific transcript profile for a well defined developmental gradient. RNA was prepared from different developmental stages of xylogenesis for DNA microarray analysis by using a hybrid aspen unigene set consisting of 2,995 expressed sequence tags. The analysis revealed that the genes encoding lignin and cellulose biosynthetic enzymes, as well as a number of transcription factors and other potential regulators of xylogenesis, are under strict developmental stage-specific transcriptional regulation.

Documentos Relacionados

• Clearing a roadmap
• EU wants every member to develop a “roadmap” for ehealth
• Um Roadmap para GQS
• Mechanics of the Compression Wood Response: II. On the Location, Action, and Distribution of Compression Wood Formation 1
• Biomaterial based novel polyurethane adhesives for wood to wood and metal to metal bonding