Molecular and physiological responses to abiotic stress in forest trees and their relevance to tree improvement

A Harfouche, R Meilan, A Altman - Tree physiology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abiotic stresses, such as drought, salinity and cold, are the major environmental stresses
that adversely affect tree growth and, thus, forest productivity, and play a major role in …

Responses of the plant cell wall to sub-zero temperatures: a brief update

D Takahashi, IR Willick, J Kasuga… - Plant and Cell …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Our general understanding of plant responses to sub-zero temperatures focuses on
mechanisms that mitigate stress to the plasma membrane. The plant cell wall receives …

The plant transcriptome—from integrating observations to models

B Usadel, AR Fernie - Frontiers in plant science, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Transcriptomes as assessed by either microarrays or nextgeneration sequencing have
produced a hitherto unprecedented data flood regarding transcript identity and levels in …

Mass spectrometry‐based forest tree metabolomics

AM Rodrigues, C Miguel, I Chaves… - Mass spectrometry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research in forest tree species has advanced slowly when compared with other agricultural
crops and model organisms, mainly due to the long‐life cycles, large genome sizes, and …

Understanding developmental and adaptive cues in pine through metabolite profiling and co-expression network analysis

RA Cañas, J Canales… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Conifers include long-lived evergreen trees of great economic and ecological importance,
including pines and spruces. During their long lives conifers must respond to seasonal …

Transcriptome-wide analysis supports environmental adaptations of two Pinus pinaster populations from contrasting habitats

RA Cañas, I Feito, JF Fuente-Maqueda, C Avila… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton) grows in a range of different
climates in the southwestern Mediterranean region and the existence of a variety of …

Large scale phosphoprotein profiling to explore Drosophila cold acclimation regulatory mechanisms

H Colinet, C Pineau, E Com - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The regulatory mechanisms involved in the acquisition of thermal tolerance are unknown in
insects. Reversible phosphorylation is a widespread post-translational modification that can …

Mining of publicly available RNA-seq data to reveal phenotypic differences between Landsberg erecta-0 and Columbia-0 ecotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana

Z Wu, Y Liu, B Li, C Xie, T Zhu, W Li, L Li, R Feng… - Plant Growth …, 2022 - Springer
As common ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana, obvious phenotypic differences have been
observed between Landsberg erecta-0 (Ler-0) and Columbia-0 (Col-0). However, it is …

Evidence for extensive heterotrophic metabolism, antioxidant action, and associated regulatory events during winter hardening in Sitka spruce

E Collakova, C Klumas, H Suren, E Myers, LS Heath… - BMC Plant …, 2013 - Springer
Background Cold acclimation in woody perennials is a metabolically intensive process, but
coincides with environmental conditions that are not conducive to the generation of energy …

Time-based expression networks of genes related to cold stress in Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis

GH Lee, JG Yu, YD Park - Horticultural Science & Technology, 2015 - koreascience.kr
Plants can respond and adapt to cold stress through regulation of gene expression in
various biochemical and physiological processes. Cold stress triggers decreased rates of …