White spruce wood quality for lumber products: priority traits and their enhancement through tree improvement

M Hassegawa, M Savard, PRN Lenz… - … Journal of Forest …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
White spruce breeding has traditionally focused on genetic improvement for high
productivity, targeting mostly stem volume. However, new challenges, such as the effects of …

Spruce population genomics

J Bousquet, S Gérardi, G de Lafontaine… - 2021 - Springer
Spruce (Picea spp.) species are the dominant component of the circumboreal forest and one
of the most reforested species groups in the world. They have become a reference among …

[BOEK][B] The conifers

DB Neale, NC Wheeler, DB Neale, NC Wheeler - 2019 - Springer
The conifers are a diverse and ancient group of seed plants of monophyletic origin that
arose more than 300 million years ago (Rothwell and Scheckler 1988). They are uniformly …

A high‐resolution reference genetic map positioning 8.8 K genes for the conifer white spruce: Structural genomics implications and correspondence with physical …

N Pavy, M Lamothe, B Pelgas, F Gagnon… - The Plant …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decade, extensive genetic and genomic resources have been developed for
the conifer white spruce (Picea glauca, Pinaceae), which has one of the largest plant …
H Tumas, JJ Ilska, S Gérardi, J Laroche… - G3: Genes …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In species with large and complex genomes such as conifers, dense linkage maps are a
useful resource for supporting genome assembly and laying the genomic groundwork at the …

Assessing the potential for assisted gene flow using past introduction of Norway spruce in southern Sweden: Local adaptation and genetic basis of quantitative traits in …

P Milesi, M Berlin, J Chen, M Orsucci, L Li… - Evolutionary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Norway spruce (Picea abies) is a dominant conifer species of major economic importance in
northern Europe. Extensive breeding programs were established to improve phenotypic …

An Ultra-Dense Haploid Genetic Map for Evaluating the Highly Fragmented Genome Assembly of Norway Spruce (Picea abies)

C Bernhardsson, A Vidalis, X Wang… - G3: Genes …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) is a conifer species of substanital economic and
ecological importance. In common with most conifers, the P. abies genome is very large (∼ …

The genetics of exapted resistance to two exotic pathogens in pedunculate oak

J Bartholomé, B Brachi, B Marçais… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Exotic pathogens cause severe damage in natural populations in the absence of
coevolutionary dynamics with their hosts. However, some resistance to such pathogens may …

Different Alleles of a Gene Encoding Leucoanthocyanidin Reductase (PaLAR3) Influence Resistance against the Fungus Heterobasidion parviporum in Picea abies

M Nemesio-Gorriz, A Hammerbacher… - Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Despite the fact that fungal diseases are a growing menace for conifers in modern
silviculture, only a very limited number of molecular markers for pathogen resistance have …

A Highly Dense Genetic Map for Ginkgo biloba Constructed Using Sequence-Based Markers

H Liu, F Cao, T Yin, Y Chen - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Ginkgo biloba L. is a well-known living gymnosperm fossil that has medicinal and
ornamental value. In this study, a high density genetic map was constructed with …