Table 2.
Description of poplar genes and primers for real-time PCR.
| Namea | GenBank accession numberb | Arabidopsis homolog locusc | Arabidopsis locus description | BLASTX score/ E value | Primer sequences (forward/reverse) |
| ACT11 | CA824001 | AT3G12110 | Actin 11 | 363/ e-101 | CACACTGGAGTGATGGTTGG / ATTGGCCTTGGGGTTAAGAG |
| ACT2 | BU879695 | AT5G09810 | Actin 2/7 | 320/ 5e-088 | CCCATTGAGCACGGTATTGT / TACGACCACTGGCATACAGG |
| CYP | BU875027 | AT2G21130 | cyclophilin (CYP2) | 284/ 6e-077 | GGCTAATTTTGCCGATGAGA / ACGTCCATCCCTTCAACAAC |
| TUA |
CA822230 CA825391 |
AT5G19780 | tubulin alpha-3/alpha-5 chain | 439/ e-130 | AGGTTCTGGTTTGGGGTCTT / TTGTCCAAAAGCACAGCAAC |
| TUB | CA824237 | AT4G20890 | tubulin beta-9 chain | 154/ 4e-038 | GCACCAACTTGTTGAGAATGC / TTTCAACTGACCAGGGAACC |
| UBQ | BU879229 | AT4G05050 | polyubiquitin (UBQ11) | 416/ e-117 | GTTGATTTTTGCTGGGAAGC / GATCTTGGCCTTCACGTTGT |
| UBQ-L | BU871588 | AT2G35635 | ubiquitin-like (UBQ7) | 291/ 4e-079 | TGAGGCTTAGGGGAGGAACT / TGTAGTCGCGAGCTGTCTTG |
| EIF4B-L | CA825614 | AT4G38710 | similarity to eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4B | 80/ 1e-015 | AAAAAGGGGATTTGGGATTG / AACTTCGTCCTCGGTAGCAA |
| EF1β | BI125345 | AT2G18110 | elongation factor 1-beta, putative | 122/ 1e-028 | AAGAGGACAAGAAGGCAGCA / CTAACCGCCTTCTCCAACAC |
| 18S | AF206999 | 18RRNA | 18S ribosomal RNA | 2949/ 0.0 | AATTGTTGGTCTTCAACGAGGAA/ AAAGGGCAGGGACGTAGTCAA |
aAll poplar sequences except 18S are ESTs, and were named based on similarity to Arabidopsis proteins determined via BLASTX (Altschul et al. 1997). In most cases, the name indicates only a gene family or subfamily rather than a specific member of a gene family because partial poplar sequences and BLAST will not necessarily identify the putative Arabidopsis ortholog. bTwo accession numbers indicate that two EST sequences were used to design the primer set. cClosest Arabidopsis homolog identified using Tair BLAST 2.0 http://www.arabidopsis.org/Blast/. AGI proteins database was queried with poplar nucleotide sequences using BLASTX or in the case of 18S, Arabidopsis genome database with BLASTN.