Adventitious roots and lateral roots: similarities and differences

C Bellini, DI Pacurar, I Perrone - Annual review of plant biology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
In addition to its role in water and nutrient uptake, the root system is fundamentally important
because it anchors a plant to its substrate. Although a wide variety of root systems exist …

Marginal lands to grow novel bio-based crops: a plant breeding perspective

F Pancaldi, LM Trindade - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The biomass demand to fuel a growing global bio-based economy is expected to
tremendously increase over the next decades, and projections indicate that dedicated …

Genomic selection in forest tree breeding: the concept and an outlook to the future

F Isik - New Forests, 2014 - Springer
Using large numbers of DNA markers to predict genetic merit [genomic selection (GS)] is a
new frontier in plant and animal breeding programs. GS is now routinely used to select …

Genomics of cold hardiness in woody plants

M Wisniewski, A Nassuth, C Teulieres… - Critical Reviews in …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The term cold hardiness or freezing tolerance is used to represent, in a general sense, the
ability of plants to adapt to and withstand freezing temperatures. It is a complex, multigenic …

Native forests and climate change: Lessons from eucalypts

TH Booth, LM Broadhurst, E Pinkard, SM Prober… - Forest Ecology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to review studies relevant to potential climate change impacts
on natural stands of eucalypts, with a view to identifying not only specific lessons for the …

Allocation to carbon storage pools in Norway spruce saplings under drought and low CO2

H Hartmann, NG McDowell, S Trumbore - Tree Physiology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) are critical to maintain plant metabolism under
stressful environmental conditions, but we do not fully understand how NSC allocation and …

Uncovering the defence responses of Eucalyptus to pests and pathogens in the genomics age

S Naidoo, C Külheim, L Zwart, R Mangwanda… - Tree …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Long-lived tree species are subject to attack by various pests and pathogens during their
lifetime. This problem is exacerbated by climate change, which may increase the host range …

The Eucalyptus grandis NBS-LRR Gene Family: Physical Clustering and Expression Hotspots

N Christie, PA Tobias, S Naidoo… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Eucalyptus grandis is a commercially important hardwood species and is known to be
susceptible to a number of pests and pathogens. Determining mechanisms of defense is …

A robust chromatin immunoprecipitation protocol for studying transcription factor–DNA interactions and histone modifications in wood-forming tissue

W Li, YC Lin, Q Li, R Shi, CY Lin, H Chen, L Chuang… - nature protocols, 2014 - nature.com
Woody cells and tissues are recalcitrant to standard chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)
procedures. However, we recently successfully implemented ChIP in wood-forming tissue of …

Early and delayed long-term transcriptional changes and short-term transient responses during cold acclimation in olive leaves

MO Leyva-Perez, A Valverde-Corredor… - DNA …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Low temperature severely affects plant growth and development. To overcome this
constraint, several plant species from regions having a cool season have evolved an …