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The natural variability of wood formation in trees affords opportunities to correlate transcript profiles with the resulting wood properties. We have used cDNA microarrays to study transcript abundance in developing secondary xylem of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) over a growing season. The cDNAs were selected from a collection of 75 000 ESTs that have been sequenced and annotated (http://web.ahc.umn.edu/biodata/nsfpine/). Cell wall thickness and climatic data were related to earlywood and latewood formation at different time points during the growing season. Seventy-one ESTs showed preferential expression in earlywood or latewood, including 23 genes with no significant similarity to genes in GenBank. Seven genes involved in lignin synthesis were preferentially expressed in latewood. The studies have provided initial insights into the variation of expression patterns of some of the genes related to the wood formation process.

Original publication

DOI

10.1055/s-2004-830383

Type

Journal article

Journal

Plant Biol (Stuttg)

Publication Date

11/2004

Volume

6

Pages

654 - 663

Keywords

Expressed Sequence Tags, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Expression Regulation, Plant, Genes, Plant, Microarray Analysis, Pinus taeda, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Seasons, Transcription, Genetic