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Nathaniel R. Street
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Open AccessGenetic markers and tree properties predicting wood biorefining potential in aspen (Populus tremula) bioenergy feedstock
Wood represents the majority of the biomass on land and constitutes a renewable source of biofuels and other bioproducts. However, wood is recalcitrant to bioconversion, raising a need for feedstock improvemen...
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Open AccessqtlXplorer: an online systems genetics browser in the Eucalyptus Genome Integrative Explorer (EucGenIE)
Affordable high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing technologies are allowing genomic analysis of plant and animal populations and as a result empowering new systems genetics approaches to study complex traits. ...
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A single gene underlies the dynamic evolution of poplar sex determination
Although hundreds of plant lineages have independently evolved dioecy (that is, separation of the sexes), the underlying genetic basis remains largely elusive1. Here we show that diverse poplar species carry part...
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Open AccessA major locus controls local adaptation and adaptive life history variation in a perennial plant
The initiation of growth cessation and dormancy represent critical life-history trade-offs between survival and growth and have important fitness effects in perennial plants. Such adaptive life-history traits ...
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Spatially resolved transcriptome profiling in model plant species
Understanding complex biological systems requires functional characterization of specialized tissue domains. However, existing strategies for generating and analysing high-throughput spatial expression profile...
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Structural Genomics of Angiosperm Trees: Genome Duplications, Ploidy, and Repeat Sequences
Angiosperm genomes frequently undergo polyploidy, which results in a genome doubling event, followed by genome rearrangement and organisation. Such whole genome duplication events often result in immediate spe...
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Open AccessLandscape relatedness: detecting contemporary fine-scale spatial structure in wild populations
Methods for detecting contemporary, fine-scale population genetic structure in continuous populations are scarce. Yet such methods are vital for ecological and conservation studies, particularly under a changi...
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Open AccessPopulus tremula (European aspen) shows no evidence of sexual dimorphism
Evolutionary theory suggests that males and females may evolve sexually dimorphic phenotypic and biochemical traits concordant with each sex having different optimal strategies of resource investment to maximi...
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Open AccessComPlEx: conservation and divergence of co-expression networks in A. thaliana, Populus and O. sativa
Divergence in gene regulation has emerged as a key mechanism underlying species differentiation. Comparative analysis of co-expression networks across species can reveal conservation and divergence in the regu...
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Open AccessThe Norway spruce genome sequence and conifer genome evolution
Conifers have dominated forests for more than 200 million years and are of huge ecological and economic importance. Here we present the draft assembly of the 20-gigabase genome of Norway spruce (Picea abies), the...
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Populus Resources and Bioinformatics
As a model system, Populus offers the opportunity to study biological questions pertinent to perennial growth habits such as lignocellulosic cell wall biogenesis and dormancy cycles. In the past years, much ha...
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Open AccessGenome-wide profiling of Populus small RNAs
Short RNAs, and in particular microRNAs, are important regulators of gene expression both within defined regulatory pathways and at the epigenetic scale. We investigated the short RNA (sRNA) population (18-24 ...
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Open AccessLAMINA: a tool for rapid quantification of leaf size and shape parameters
An increased understanding of leaf area development is important in a number of fields: in food and non-food crops, for example short rotation forestry as a biofuels feedstock, leaf area is intricately linked ...
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QTL for yield in bioenergy Populus: identifying G×E interactions from growth at three contrasting sites
Populus is a genus of fast growing trees that may be suitable as a bioenergy crop grown in short rotation, but understanding the genetic nature of yield and genotype interactions with the environment is critical ...
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Populus Trees
