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Comparative regulomics provides novel insight into the evolution of wood formation across dicot and conifer trees

Rodriguez, E.Open in Google Scholar•Birkeland, S.Open in Google Scholar•Chapple, E. D.Open in Google Scholar•Fredriksson, S.Open in Google Scholar•Lorenzo, Z. C.Open in Google Scholar•Kalman, T. A.Open in Google Scholar•Kumar, V.Open in Google Scholar•Hill, J.Open in Google Scholar•Tuominen, H.Open in Google Scholar•Mellerowicz, E. J.Open in Google Scholaret al.

Understanding the regulatory program underlying wood formation is key to improving biomass production and carbon sequestration in trees. However, how wood formation evolved and how these programs have been rewired across lineages remains unclear. Here, we present the first high-spatial-resolution evo-devo resource spanning the wood transcriptomes of six tree species - three dicots and three conifers - capturing 250 million years of evolutionary divergence. Using orthology-aware co-expression network analysis, we identified genes with conserved and lineage-specific expression patterns. By integrating chromatin accessibility data and transcription factor motif analysis, we further inferred regulatory networks for xylem differentiation and secondary cell wall formation. We demonstrate how this dataset can be used to answer long standing questions in wood biology related to differences in acetylation of cell wall polymers and master regulators of xylem specification across dicot and conifer tree species. The data offer a foundational resource for the tree biology and evo-devo communities, and are publicly available at PlantGenIE.org.

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