Modern strategies to assess and breed forest tree adaptation to changing climate

AJ Cortés, M Restrepo-Montoya… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Studying the genetics of adaptation to new environments in ecologically and industrially
important tree species is currently a major research line in the fields of plant science and …

Genomic selection for forest tree improvement: methods, achievements and perspectives

VG Lebedev, TN Lebedeva, AI Chernodubov… - Forests, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
The breeding of forest trees is only a few decades old, and is a much more complicated,
longer, and expensive endeavor than the breeding of agricultural crops. One breeding cycle …

Forest genomics: Advancing climate adaptation, forest health, productivity, and conservation

N Isabel, JA Holliday, SN Aitken - Evolutionary Applications, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Forest ecosystems provide important ecological services and resources, from habitat for
biodiversity to the production of environmentally friendly products, and play a key role in the …

Climate change resha** plant-fungal interaction

A Waheed, Y Haxim, W Islam, M Ahmad… - Environmental …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Plant diseases pose a severe threat to modern agriculture, necessitating effective and
lasting control solutions. Environmental factors significantly shape plant ecology. Human …

Biotechnology and genomic approaches to mitigating disease impacts on forest health

JM LeBoldus, SC Lynch, AE Newhouse… - Annual Review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Outbreaks of insects and diseases are part of the natural disturbance regime of all forests.
However, introduced pathogens have had outsized impacts on many dominant forest tree …

Genetic approaches for increasing fitness in endangered species

TA Kosch, AW Waddle, CA Cooper, KR Zenger… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022‏ - cell.com
The global rate of wildlife extinctions is accelerating, and the persistence of many species
requires conservation breeding programs. A central paradigm of these programs is to …

From genome sequencing to CRISPR-based genome editing for climate-resilient forest trees

HX Cao, GTH Vu, O Gailing - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Due to the economic and ecological importance of forest trees, modern breeding and
genetic manipulation of forest trees have become increasingly prevalent. The CRISPR …

Genomic prediction of resistance to Hymenoscyphus fraxineus in common ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) populations

J Meger, B Ulaszewski, M Pałucka… - Evolutionary …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The increase in introduced insect pests and pathogens due to anthropogenic environmental
changes has become a major concern for tree species worldwide. Common ash (Fraxinus …

Finding common ground: Toward comparable indicators of adaptive capacity of tree species to a changing climate

S Royer‐Tardif, L Boisvert‐Marsh… - Ecology and …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive capacity, one of the three determinants of vulnerability to climate change, is
defined as the capacity of species to persist in their current location by co** with novel …

Beyond blight: Phytophthora root rot under climate change limits populations of reintroduced American chestnut

EJ Gustafson, BR Miranda, TJ Dreaden… - …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was functionally extirpated from eastern US forests
by chestnut blight, caused by a fungus from Asia. As efforts to produce blight‐resistant …