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JOURNAL OF WOOD SCIENCE
Volume 58, Issue 4, Pages 281-289Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s10086-011-1247-1
Keywords
Xyloglucan; Field trial; Poplar; Leaf morphology; Sun leaf
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- JSPS KAKENHI [19208016]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19208016, 23658133, 22780305, 23380104] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The transgenic expression of Aspergillus xyloglucanase cDNA (AaXEG2) with 35S promoter in the leaves of open field-grown poplars was studied. The level of xyloglucan in the transgenic poplars was decreased to 15-16% in the non-fertile soil (forest-field soil) and to 21-22% in the fertile soil (farming-field soil) compared with that of the wild-type poplars. The leaves exhibited a smaller surface area with more rounded teeth than those of the wild-type plants, similar to the sun leaf variety that was grown in the incubation room and subsequently greenhoused. The majority of total veins with water-conducting vascular bundles were shorter in the leaves of the transgenic poplars than those of the wild type. This decrease in vein length may result from a decrease in xyloglucan during leaf development, from which large numbers of proteins were markedly downregulated in the leaves of the transgenic plants via proteomic analysis. It seems likely that the leaves of the transgenic poplars came to relax the edges of their tooth rather than extend their veins as a result of the loosening of the xyloglucan cellulose networks in the leaves.
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