The use of molecular techniques for parentage analysis has been a booming science for
over a decade. The most important technological breakthrough was the introduction of …

DNA microsatellites provide plant ecologists with molecular markers precise enough to
assign parentage to seeds and seedlings. This allows the exact distance and trajectory of …

Evaluation of the genetic diversity among populations is an essential prerequisite for the
preservation of endangered species. Thousands of new accessions are introduced into …

The genetic variability that developed in plants during their evolution is the basis of their
domestication and breeding into the crops grown today for food, fuel and other industrial …

A central question in evolutionary biology is how gene flow and natural selection shape
geographic patterns of genotypic and phenotypic variation. My overall research program has …

A parentage and a paternity-based approach were tested for estimation of pollen-mediated
gene flow in wild grapevine (Vitis vinifera L. subsp. silvestris), a wind-pollinated species …

Estimating seed and pollen gene flow in plants on the basis of samples of naturally
regenerated seedlings can provide much needed information about “realized gene flow,” but …

Paternity analysis based on microsatellite marker genoty** was used to infer
contemporary genetic connectivity by pollen of three population remnants of the wind …

Precise empirical data on current gene flow by pollen, both with respect to distance and
abundance, is crucial to understand whether habitat fragments are functionally connected …

Seed orchards represent the link between tree breeding and silvicultural activities. Their
genetic efficiency is of vital importance as it determines the extent of genetic gain and …