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2006
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Sanna Koutaniemi Tino Warinowski Anna Kärkönen Carl Gunnar Fossdal Lars Paulin Stephen Rudd Teemu H. TeeriAbstract
Although a detailed description of the lignin biosynthetic pathway has been established in e.g. Arabidopsis, such an analysis has not been performed in tree species. We have used EST sequencing and quantitative real-time RT-PCR to explore lignin biosynthetic gene expression in Norway spruce (Picea abies).Altogether 7500 ESTs were sequenced from a lignin forming tissue culture and developing wood of spruce, and clustered into 3800 unigenes. According to a tentative annotation, 4% of the unigenes were potentially involved in lignin biosynthesis. For most catalytic steps, several gene family members were found, but only one unigene for each gene family contained ESTs from both the tissue culture and developing wood.Expression of the unigenes was studied in detail using quantitative real-time RT-PCR. Results highlighted the set of unigenes most likely responsible for monolignol biosynthesis in Norway spruce, also demonstrating that the same genes are expressed in all lignin-forming tissues.On the contrary, peroxidases and laccases, thought to be responsible for the oxidative step in lignin polymerisation, had distinct expression profiles in different tissues. Also a few genes induced by compression stress or Heterobasidion annosum infection were identified.
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Håkan Broman Mikael Frisk Mikael Rönnqvist Mikael RönnqvistAbstract
The storm Gudrun hit southern Sweden in January 2005 and approximately 70 million cubic meters of forest was wind felled. The existing logistic planning at forest companies in the damaged area had to be changed over night. There was a direct shortage of both harvest and transportation capacities. Key questions that arised were which terminals to use, where to harvest, where to store, which transportation modes (truck, train, ship) to use. In this paper we describe how the forest company Sveaskog made use of Operations Research (OR) as an important decision support in their supply chain planning in the aftermath of the storm.
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Mikael Rönnqvist Håkan Broman Mikael Frisk Mikael RönnqvistAbstract
The storm Gudrun hit southern Sweden in January 2005 and approximately 70 million cubic meters of forest was wind felled. The existing logistic planning at forest companies in the damaged area had to be changed over night. There was a direct shortage of both harvest and transportation capacities. Key questions that arised were which terminals to use, where to harvest, where to store, which transportation modes (truck, train, ship) to use. In this paper we describe how the forest company Sveaskog made use of Operations Research (OR) as an important decision support in their supply chain planning in the aftermath of the storm.
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Based on field observations of leaf morphology and variation in chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) in Scandinavia, Norway has been suggested as a suture zone for elm (Ulmus glabra) from different glacial refugia. The aim of this paper was to study the geographical concordance between the maternally inherited cpDNA markers (16 populations) and the assumed polygenic and biparentally inherited leaf traits, studied in a field trial (five populations).Two cpDNA haplotypes were detected, but without geographical structure. Leaf traits showed a gradient from typical ssp. montana traits (relatively long, long tapering, absent acute lobes) in western populations to more ssp. glabra-like traits (relatively broad, short tapering, acute lobes present) in eastern and northern populations.The overall geographical concordance between haplotype distribution and leaf traits was limited, probably owing to different inheritance of cpDNA and leaf traits, but the spatial variation in leaf traits and cpDNA in a subset of common populations (n=5) was compatible with a dual migration of elm to Scandinavia. Both measures suggest a broad suture zone, covering the entire distribution of elm in Norway.The results are discussed in relation to the use of maternally inherited markers, such as cpDNA, in delimiting suture zones.
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Anders BrynAbstract
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Talis GaitnieksAbstract
Normally, infection by Heterobasidion annosum does not affect the fine roots of Norway spruce. Thus, mycorrhizas may be found with rot-affected conifers. The objective of the given study was to compare the morphological indices and mycorrhization of fine roots for rot-infected and healthy Norway spruce trees. The root samples were collected on 14 plots. In 6 of the plots H. annsoum was established. The plots were either on mineral soils or peaty soils. The major morphological indices of fine roots (such as root length, volume, number of root tips) were found to be substantially higher (=0,05) for the plots with only healthy Norway spruce trees. Twisted, irregularly thickened mycorrhizas of bunch-like distribution were dominant for the plots with H. annosum infected Norway spruce trees.
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Adam ParuchAbstract
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