The Toolbox for Fiber Flax Breeding: A Pipeline From Gene Expression to Fiber Quality.

ABSTRACT: The goal of any plant breeding program is to improve quality of a target crop. Crop quality is a comprehensive feature largely determined by biological background. To improve the quality parameters of crops grown for the production of fiber, a functional approach was used to search for genes suitable for the effective manipulation of technical fiber quality. A key step was to identify genes with tissue and stage-specific pattern of expression in the developing fibers. In the current study, we investigated the relationship between gene expression evaluated in bast fibers of developing flax plants and the quality parameters of technical fibers measured after plant harvesting. Based on previously published transcriptomic data, two sets of genes that are upregulated in fibers during intrusive

SUBMITTER: Galinousky D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7690631 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature