Advances in ecological genomics in forest trees and applications to genetic resources conservation and breeding
2017
Holliday, Jason A. | Aitken, Sally N. | Cooke, Janice E. K. | Fady, Bruno | Gonzalez Martinez, Santiago C. | Heuertz, Myriam | Jaramillo-Correa, Juan-Pablo | Lexer, Christian | Staton, Margaret | Whetten, Ross W. | Plomion, Christophe | Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation [Blacksburg] ; Virginia Tech [Blacksburg] | Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences ; University of British Columbia [Canada] (UBC) | Department of Biological Sciences ; University of Alberta | Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes (URFM) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) | Biodiversité, Gènes & Communautés (BioGeCo) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Bordeaux (UB) | Institute of Ecology ; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) | Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Faculty of Life Sciences ; Universität Wien = University of Vienna | Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology ; The University of Tennessee [Knoxville] | Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources ; North Carolina State University [Raleigh] (NC State) ; University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC) | LabEx Arbre (ANR-11-LABX-0002-01), the Equipex Xyloforest (ANR-10-EQPX-16)/ IdEx Bordeaux (ANR No.-10-IDEX-03-02) | ANR-12-EBID-0003,Tiptree,Scénarios pour la dynamique de la biodiversité des forêts européennes sous changement global identifier les points de basculement micro-evolutifs(2012) | ANR-11-LABX-0002,ARBRE,Recherches Avancées sur l'Arbre et les Ecosytèmes Forestiers(2011) | European Project: 676876
Forest trees are an unparalleled group of organisms in their combined ecological, economic and societal importance. With widespread distributions, predominantly random mating systems and large population sizes, most tree species harbour extensive genetic variation both within and among populations. At the same time, demographic processes associated with Pleistocene climate oscillations and land-use change have affected contemporary range-wide diversity and may impinge on the potential for future adaptation. Understanding how these adaptive and neutral processes have shaped the genomes of trees species is therefore central to their management and conservation. As for many other taxa, the advent of high-throughput sequencing methods is expected to yield an understanding of the interplay between the genome and environment at a level of detail and depth not possible only a few years ago. An international conference entitled ‘Genomics and Forest Tree Genetics’ was held in May 2016, in Arcachon (France), and brought together forest geneticists with a wide range of research interests to disseminate recent efforts that leverage contemporary genomic tools to probe the population, quantitative and evolutionary genomics of trees. An important goal of the conference was to discuss how such data can be applied to both genome-enabled breeding and the conservation of forest genetic resources under land use and climate change. Here, we report discoveries presented at the meeting and discuss how the ecological genomic toolkit can be used to address both basic and applied questions in tree biology.
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