Title |
A comprehensive assessment of the transcriptome of cork oak (Quercus suber) through EST sequencing
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, May 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-15-371 |
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Authors |
José B Pereira-Leal, Isabel A Abreu, Cláudia S Alabaça, Maria Helena Almeida, Paulo Almeida, Tânia Almeida, Maria Isabel Amorim, Susana Araújo, Herlânder Azevedo, Aleix Badia, Dora Batista, Andreas Bohn, Tiago Capote, Isabel Carrasquinho, Inês Chaves, Ana Cristina Coelho, Maria Manuela Ribeiro Costa, Rita Costa, Alfredo Cravador, Conceição Egas, Carlos Faro, Ana M Fortes, Ana S Fortunato, Maria João Gaspar, Sónia Gonçalves, José Graça, Marília Horta, Vera Inácio, José M Leitão, Teresa Lino-Neto, Liliana Marum, José Matos, Diogo Mendonça, Andreia Miguel, Célia M Miguel, Leonor Morais-Cecílio, Isabel Neves, Filomena Nóbrega, Maria Margarida Oliveira, Rute Oliveira, Maria Salomé Pais, Jorge A Paiva, Octávio S Paulo, Miguel Pinheiro, João AP Raimundo, José C Ramalho, Ana I Ribeiro, Teresa Ribeiro, Margarida Rocheta, Ana Isabel Rodrigues, José C Rodrigues, Nelson JM Saibo, Tatiana E Santo, Ana Margarida Santos, Paula Sá-Pereira, Mónica Sebastiana, Fernanda Simões, Rómulo S Sobral, Rui Tavares, Rita Teixeira, Carolina Varela, Maria Manuela Veloso, Cândido PP Ricardo |
Abstract |
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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