Abstract
Mechanical signals have an impact on plant development. Tropical rainforest trees display large variability for life–history traits related to biomechanics and therefore are a unique study system to better understand biomechanical trait variability from an evolutionary perspective. From sequences and gene expression data available in model species, we developed specific primers for six candidate genes for mechano-sensing in five tropical species. Most of the gene sequences were polymorphic in most species.
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This work has been supported by the Woodiversity grant (Agence Nationale de la Recherche). The authors wish to thank Meriem Fournier, Nick Rowe, and Bruno Moulia for useful discussions, and Jean Weigel and Saint-Omer Cazal for technical help.
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Chevolot, M., Louisanna, E., Azri, W. et al. Isolation of primers for candidate genes for mechano-sensing in five Neotropical tree species. Tree Genetics & Genomes 7, 655–661 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11295-010-0363-1
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