Genetic Conservation and Use of Genetic Resources of 18 Mexican Pine Species
2023
Andrés Flores | Enrique Buendía Rodríguez | Tomás Pineda Ojeda | Eulogio Flores Ayala | Jorge Méndez-González
Genetic conservation is key to maintaining forests for the future; however, these face several threats. Mexico is an example of the degradation of forest genetic resources during the past three decades due to its deforestation rates. This country is considered a center of pine diversity but its genetic conservation efforts are not enough. To define genetic conservation units (GCUs) and propose measures for the conservation and sustainable use of 18 Mexican pine species, we analyzed the distribution of the species at the national level and in germplasm transfer zones, and evaluated the species with a set of minimum requirements for conservation and indicators from the EUFORGEN program. We determined that 13 to 15 genetic zones harbored the target species, in which <i>Pinus teocote</i>, <i>Pinus cembroides</i>, <i>Pinus devoniana</i>, <i>Pinus maximinoi</i>, <i>Pinus douglasiana</i>, and <i>Pinus leiophylla</i> were the most widely distributed. We defined 173 areas for establishing GCUs for the total of the species studied; 50% of them were selected from areas with genetic information, 5% were selected from seed stands, and 45% from natural forests. We detected that most of the forest reproductive material used is collected from seed stands, and the use of seeds from breeding trials is scarce.
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