Forest tree breeding efforts have focused mainly on improving traits of economic importance,
selecting trees suited to new environments or generating trees that are more resilient to …

As tree species vary extensively in genome size, complexity, and resource development,
reduced representation methods have been increasingly employed for the generation of …

Landscape genomics is a rapidly advancing research field that combines population
genomics, landscape ecology, and spatial analytical techniques to explicitly quantify the …

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 …

Gymnosperms are long-lived, cone-bearing seed plants that include some of the most
ancient extant plant species. These relict land plants have evolved to survive in habitats …

Pinus sylvestris has a long history of basic and applied research that is relevant for both
forestry and evolutionary studies. Its patterns of adaptive variation and role in forest …

Earth's atmosphere is warming and the effects of climate change are becoming evident. A
key observation is that both the average levels and the variability of temperature and …

The ecological and economic importance of forest trees is evident and their survival is
necessary to provide the raw materials needed for wood and paper industries, to preserve …

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) and Slash pine (Pinus elliottii) are important economically and
ecologically tree species worldwide. To implement genomic based breeding strategy …

Norway spruce is a boreal forest tree species of significant ecological and economic
importance. Hence there is a strong imperative to dissect the genetics underlying important …