The holm oak transcriptome rebuilt: A key step towards understanding its biology
Friday, April 5, 2019 - 07:40
in Biology & Nature
Holm oaks are some of the most emblematic trees in Mediterranean forests and the most abundant ones on the Iberian Peninsula. Holm oaks have provided countless applications throughout their hundreds of thousands of years of history, and currently are one of the main resources for livestock farmers in the dehesa, a vital ecosystem in southern Spain. The AGR-164 research group at the University of Cordoba, headed by Professor Jesús V. Jorrín Novo, has sequenced the transcriptome of this emblematic forest species, which is an important starting point to understanding its reactions to stress, as well as other aspects of its biology.