Kristina Blomqvist

TL;DR: The large vascular meristem of poplar trees with its highly organized secondary xylem enables the boundaries between different developmental zones to be easily distinguished, and this property of wood-forming tissues allowed us to determine a unique tissue-specific transcript profile for a well defined developmental gradient.

TL;DR: The genes involved in the 2,3-butanediol pathway coding for alpha-acetolactate decarboxylase, alpha- acetolactates synthase, and acetoin (diacetyl) reductase were isolated from Klebsiella terrigena and shown to be located in one operon.

TL;DR: The knowledge on 3D structures and lipid binding and the most recent data from functional investigations, such as from knockout or overexpressing experiments are reviewed and a novel system for the classification and naming of the LTPs is proposed.

TL;DR: Comparative analysis of expansins expressed in woody stems in aspen, Arabidopsis, and pine showed that the most abundantly expressed expansins share sequence similarities, belonging to the subfamily A of α-expansins and having two conserved motifs at the beginning and end of the mature protein, RIPVG and KNFRV, respectively, suggesting that these genes may share a specialized, not yet identified function.

TL;DR: Observations suggest that PttMAP20 has a role in cellulose biosynthesis, which is strongly up-regulated during secondary cell wall synthesis and tightly coregulated with the secondary wall-associated CESA genes in hybrid aspen.