White lupin (Lupinus albus L.) plants develop cluster roots and have strong resistance to
phosphorus starvation. Although many expressed sequences have been identified to …

Understanding the functions encoded by plant genes can be facilitated by reducing
transcript levels by hairpin RNA (hpRNA) mediated silencing. A bottleneck to this technology …

This dissertation is comprised of four studies on different elements of Populus biotechnology
and genomic science: 1) growth improvement by recombinant DNA (rDNA) modification of …

Abstract Knowledge of the functional relationship between genes and organismal
phenotypes in perennial plants is extremely limited. Using a population of 627 independent …

Multigene cotransformation has been widely used in the study of genetic improvement in
crops and trees. However, little is known about the unintended effects and causes of …

Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification (GM), is the isolation, recombinant
modification, and asexual transfer of genes. It has been banned in forest plantations certified …

During the last two decades, genetic engineering (GE) has been progressing at a steady
pace in the forest trees. Transgenic trees carrying a variety of different transgenes have …

Transgenic trees carrying a variety of different transgenes have been produced, and are
undergoing confined field trials in the world. However, there are lingering questions …