Genomics and Forest Biology: Populus Emerges as the Perennial Favorite. Wullschleger, S. D., Jansson, S., & Taylor, G. The Plant Cell, 14(11):2651–2655, November, 2002.
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Forest biologists have developed strong justifications for why trees should be viewed as model systems in plant biology, including the obvious challenges in extrapolating findings from annual, herbaceous plants to organisms that are distinguished by perennial growth, large size, complex crown architecture, extensive secondary xylem, dormancy, and juvenile–mature phase changes (Bradshaw et al., 2000; Taylor, 2002). Similar justification has been used to argue why the genome of a tree should be sequenced. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, announced earlier this year plans to sequence the first tree genome, that of the black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) (Figure 1) Figure 1.Populus: A Model System for Tree Genomics.At left, 7-year-old hybrid poplars being harvested in western Oregon. Top right, expression of a poplar DEFICIENS homolog in female floral meristems of black cottonwood (Sheppard et al., 2000); bottom right, germinating pollen grains being tested for viability using a fluorescent stain. .
@article{wullschleger_genomics_2002,
	title = {Genomics and {Forest} {Biology}: {Populus} {Emerges} as the {Perennial} {Favorite}},
	volume = {14},
	issn = {1040-4651},
	shorttitle = {Genomics and {Forest} {Biology}},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.141120},
	doi = {10/bwdnsd},
	abstract = {Forest biologists have developed strong justifications for why trees should be viewed as model systems in plant biology, including the obvious challenges in extrapolating findings from annual, herbaceous plants to organisms that are distinguished by perennial growth, large size, complex crown architecture, extensive secondary xylem, dormancy, and juvenile–mature phase changes (Bradshaw et al., 2000; Taylor, 2002). Similar justification has been used to argue why the genome of a tree should be sequenced. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, announced earlier this year plans to sequence the first tree genome, that of the black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) (Figure 1) Figure 1.Populus: A Model System for Tree Genomics.At left, 7-year-old hybrid poplars being harvested in western Oregon. Top right, expression of a poplar DEFICIENS homolog in female floral meristems of black cottonwood (Sheppard et al., 2000); bottom right, germinating pollen grains being tested for viability using a fluorescent stain. .},
	number = {11},
	urldate = {2021-10-19},
	journal = {The Plant Cell},
	author = {Wullschleger, Stan D. and Jansson, Stefan and Taylor, Gail},
	month = nov,
	year = {2002},
	pages = {2651--2655},
}

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