This thesis compares the gene expression and protein abundance across a series spanning the wood forming developmental stages in Populus tremula (common aspen): phloem, cambium and xylem. The comparison was based on two ...

In the era of multi-omics, making reasonable statistical inferences through data integration is challenged by data heterogeneity, dimensionality constraints, and data harmonization. The biological system is presumed to ...

Whole genome duplication (WGD) is a rare mutational event that provides additional duplicates of all genes in the entire genome, resulting in functional redundancy. This redundancy leads to relaxation of selective constraints ...

The emergence of complex traits in living organisms has been of interest to biologists since the early days of biology. Domestication and breeding has resulted in the most remarkable transformations, such as the grass ...

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is an allohexaploid hybrid composed of three closely related diploid subgenomes (AABBDD, 2n=6x=42). For most genes, bread wheat therefore has three gene copies, referred to as homeolog ...

Wood, or secondary xylem, is the product of xylogenesis, a developmental process that begins with the proliferation of cambial derivatives and ends with mature xylem fibers and vessels with lignified secondary cell walls. ...