Genetic analysis of stem vascular development and fiber length properties in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Description: Secondary vascular development (i.e. wood formation) is responsible for the production of economically important plant products such as wood and fibers. It has recently been demonstrated that the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana can be used to identify genes involved in regulating secondary vascular development. This thesis describes three projects linked by the common goal of understanding the genetic control of primary and secondary vascular development and fiber length properties in Arabidopsis stems. Chapter 1 describes a screen of Arabidopsis mutant genotypes for altered stem vascular development. Chapter 2 describes a screen of enhancer trap insertion lines for green fluorescent protein reporter expression in primary and secondary vascular tissues. Chapter 3 describes an analysis of fiber length properties in Arabidopsis mutants and the preparation of mapping populations from crosses between Arabidopsis accessions which will be useful for future fiber property quantitative trait loci studies.
Notes: Adviser:  Thomas Berleth.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, page: 0765.

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