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The application of modern molecular technologies previously developed on crop plants to forest tree species offers new opportunities for studies on gene regulation and gene expression. In trees traits are of interest which are associated with tree-specific characteristics, such as fruit quality and flower sterility in fruit trees, and wood properties in forest trees. So far, very little is known about genes controlling these traits, and only few genes have been cloned. By means of molecular tools different RAPD-, RFLP- or AFLP-markers can be identified corresponding to specific wood properties. Another strategy is the transposon tagging approach using endogenous transposable elements (Walbot 1992) which have been detected in a number of annual plant species (Döring and Starlinger 1986, Gierl and Saedler 1992), but not in trees so far.
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Fladung, M. (1999). Prospects for the Isolation of Genes Controlling Tree-Specific Traits by Using a Transposon Tagging Approach. In: Altman, A., Ziv, M., Izhar, S. (eds) Plant Biotechnology and In Vitro Biology in the 21st Century. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4661-6_32
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