Defensive Traits during White Spruce (Picea glauca) Leaf Ontogeny [PDF]
Insects, 2021 Changes during leaf ontogeny affect palatability to herbivores, such that many insects, including the eastern spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.)), are specialist feeders on growing conifer leaves and buds.
Antoine-Olivier Lirette, Emma Despland
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Efficient Multi-Sites Genome Editing and Plant Regeneration via Somatic Embryogenesis in Picea glauca [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Conifers are the world's major source of timber and pulpwood and have great economic and ecological value. Currently, little research on the application of CRISPR/Cas9, the commonly used genome-editing tool in angiosperms, has been reported in coniferous
Ying Cui +6 more
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Spatial Variations in Seed Germination Traits of White Spruce (Picea glauca) and Black Spruce (P. mariana) Across the Canadian Boreal Forest [PDF]
PlantsThis study focuses on the spatial variation in seed germination characteristics of Picea glauca and P. mariana, prominent and widespread species within the Canadian boreal forest.
Elaine Qualtiere +7 more
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Single-Step BLUP with Varying Genotyping Effort in Open-Pollinated Picea glauca [PDF]
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2017 Maximization of genetic gain in forest tree breeding programs is contingent on the accuracy of the predicted breeding values and precision of the estimated genetic parameters.
Blaise Ratcliffe +6 more
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Global Analysis of Small RNA Dynamics during Seed Development of Picea glauca and Arabidopsis thaliana Populations Reveals Insights on their Evolutionary Trajectories [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017 While DNA methylation carries genetic signals and is instrumental in the evolution of organismal complexity, small RNAs (sRNAs), ~18–24 ribonucleotide (nt) sequences, are crucial mediators of methylation as well as gene silencing.
Yang Liu, Yousry A. El-Kassaby
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Identification of defensin-encoding genes of
BMC Plant Biology, 2012 Background Plant defensins represent a major innate immune protein superfamily that displays strong inhibitory effects on filamentous fungi. The total number of plant defensins in a conifer species is unknown since there are no sequenced conifer genomes ...
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Scientific Data, 2021 Measurement(s) height • survival • phenology Technology Type(s) digital curation Sample Characteristic - Organism Pinus strobus • Pinus banksiana • Picea glauca • Picea mariana • Quercus rubra • Larix laricina • Betula alleghaniensis Sample ...
Clara Risk +3 more
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Bridging implementation gaps to connect large ecological datasets and complex models
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Merging robust statistical methods with complex simulation models is a frontier for improving ecological inference and forecasting. However, bringing these tools together is not always straightforward.
Ann M. Raiho +4 more
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Modular Organization of the White Spruce (Picea glauca) Transcriptome Reveals Functional Organization and Evolutionary Signatures [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2015 Sébastien Caron
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BMC Plant Biology, 2022 Background Picea species are distributed and planted world-wide due to their great ecological and economic values. It has been reported that Picea species vary widely in growth traits in a given environment, which reflects genetic and phenotypic ...
Junchen Wang +8 more
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