A comprehensive assessment of the transcriptome of cork oak (Quercus suber) through EST sequencing

Cork oak (Quercus suber) is one of the rare trees with the ability to produce cork, a material widely used to make wine bottle stoppers, flooring and insulation materials, among many other uses. The molecular mechanisms of cork formation are still poorly understood, in great part due to the difficul...

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Main Author: Pereira-Leal, José B (author)
Other Authors: Abreu, Isabel A (author), Alabaça, Cláudia S (author), Almeida, Maria (author), Almeida, Paulo (author), Almeida, Tânia (author), Amorim, Maria (author), Araújo, Susana (author), Azevedo, Herlânder (author), Badia, Aleix (author), Batista, Dora (author), Bohn, Andreas (author), Capote, Tiago (author), Carrasquinho, Isabel (author), Chaves, Inês (author), Coelho, Ana (author), Costa, Maria (author), Costa, Rita (author), Cravador, Alfredo (author), Egas, Conceição (author), Faro, Carlos (author), Fortes, Ana M (author), Fortunato, Ana S (author), Gaspar, Maria (author), Gonçalves, Sónia (author), Graça, José (author), Horta, Marília (author), Inácio, Vera (author), Leitão, José M (author), Lino-Neto, Teresa (author), Marum, Liliana (author), Matos, José (author), Mendonça, Diogo (author), Miguel, Andreia (author), Miguel, Célia M (author), Morais-Cecílio, Leonor (author), Neves, Isabel (author), Nóbrega, Filomena (author), Oliveira, Maria (author), Oliveira, Rute (author), Pais, Maria (author), Paiva, Jorge A (author), Paulo, Octávio S (author), Pinheiro, Miguel (author), Raimundo, João AP (author), Ramalho, José C (author), Ribeiro, Ana I (author), Ribeiro, Teresa (author), Rocheta, Margarida (author), Rodrigues, Ana (author), Rodrigues, José C (author), Saibo, Nelson JM (author), Santo, Tatiana E (author), Santos, Ana (author), Sá-Pereira, Paula (author), Sebastiana, Mónica (author), Simões, Fernanda (author), Sobral, Rómulo S (author), Tavares, Rui (author), Teixeira, Rita (author), Varela, Carolina (author), Veloso, Maria (author), Ricardo, Cândido PP (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/352
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:arca.igc.gulbenkian.pt:10400.7/352
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Summary:Cork oak (Quercus suber) is one of the rare trees with the ability to produce cork, a material widely used to make wine bottle stoppers, flooring and insulation materials, among many other uses. The molecular mechanisms of cork formation are still poorly understood, in great part due to the difficulty in studying a species with a long life-cycle and for which there is scarce molecular/genomic information. Cork oak forests are of great ecological importance and represent a major economic and social resource in Southern Europe and Northern Africa. However, global warming is threatening the cork oak forests by imposing thermal, hydric and many types of novel biotic stresses. Despite the economic and social value of the Q. suber species, few genomic resources have been developed, useful for biotechnological applications and improved forest management.

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