The threat of the combined effect of biotic and abiotic stress factors in forestry under a changing climate

DT Teshome, GE Zharare, S Naidoo - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Plants encounter several biotic and abiotic stresses, usually in combination. This results in
major economic losses in agriculture and forestry every year. Climate change aggravates …

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 …

New developments in the field of genomic technologies and their relevance to conservation management

G Segelbacher, M Bosse, P Burger, P Galbusera… - Conservation …, 2022 - Springer
Recent technological advances in the field of genomics offer conservation managers and
practitioners new tools to explore for conservation applications. Many of these tools are well …

Impact of stand and landscape management on forest pest damage

L Marini, MP Ayres, H Jactel - Annual Review of Entomology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
One promising approach to mitigate the negative impacts of insect pests in forests is to adapt
forestry practices to create ecosystems that are more resistant and resilient to biotic …

The role of rhizodeposits in sha** rhizomicrobiome

T Tian, A Reverdy, Q She, B Sun… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rhizomicrobiome, the communities of microorganisms surrounding the root of the plant,
plays a vital role in promoting plant growth and health. The composition of rhizomicrobiome …

Advanced breeding for biotic stress resistance in poplar

C Biselli, L Vietto, L Rosso, L Cattivelli, G Nervo… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Poplar is one of the most important forest trees because of its high economic value. Thanks
to the fast-growing rate, easy vegetative propagation and transformation, and availability of …

Four chromosome scale genomes and a pan-genome annotation to accelerate pecan tree breeding

JT Lovell, NB Bentley, G Bhattarai, JW Jenkins… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-enabled biotechnologies have the potential to accelerate breeding efforts in long-
lived perennial crop species. Despite the transformative potential of molecular tools in pecan …

Symbiotic fungi as biotechnological tools: methodological challenges and relative benefits in agriculture and forestry

N Hagh-Doust, SMA Färkkilä, MSH Moghaddam… - Fungal Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Environmental conditions are becoming increasingly challenging in managed ecosystems,
especially in agricultural fields, where environmentally friendly solutions are urgently …

Pathologists and entomologists must join forces against forest pest and pathogen invasions

H Jactel, ML Desprez-Loustau, A Battisti… - …, 2020 - pureportal.coventry.ac.uk
The world's forests have never been more threatened by invasions of exotic pests and
pathogens, whose causes and impacts are reinforced by global change. However, forest …

Inheritance of Rootstock Effects in Avocado (Persea americana Mill.) cv. Hass

PH Reyes-Herrera, L Muñoz-Baena… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Grafting is typically utilized to merge adapted seedling rootstocks with highly productive
clonal scions. This process implies the interaction of multiple genomes to produce a unique …