Gene expression and metabolite profiling of Populus euphratica growing in the Negev desert

Mikael Brosché¹ , Basia Vinocur², Edward R Alatalo³, Airi Lamminmäki¹, Thomas Teichmann⁴, Eric A Ottow⁴, Dimitar Djilianov⁵, Dany Afif⁶, Marie-Béatrice Bogeat-Triboulot⁷, Arie Altman², Andrea Polle⁴, Erwin Dreyer⁷, Stephen Rudd⁸, Lars Paulin³, Petri Auvinen³ and Jaakko Kangasjärvi¹

¹Plant Biology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65, Viikinkaari 1, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland

²The Robert H Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Herzl Street, Rehovot 76100, Israel

³Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, Viikinkaari 4, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland

⁴Institut für Forstbotanik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Büsgenweg 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

⁵AgroBioInstitute, 8 Dragan Tzankov Boulevard, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria

⁶UMR INRA-UHP Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières, Faculté des Sciences, F-54506 Vandoeuvre, France

⁷UMR INRA-UHP Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières, IFR 110 Génomique, Ecophysiologie et Ecologie Fonctionnelle, INRA Nancy, Route d'Amance, F-54280 Champenoux, France

⁸Turku Centre for Biotechnology, BioCity, Tykistökatu 6, FIN-20521 Turku, Finland