Genetic Diversity and Gene Analysis in Forest Tree Breeding
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics and Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 1079
Special Issue Editors
2. National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecological Safety on the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River, Chengdu 611130, China
3. Forestry Ecological Engineering in the Upper Reaches of Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 611130, China
Interests: forest genetics; tree breeding; quantitative genetics; molecular mark assisted breeding (MAS); function genomics
2. National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecological Safety on the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River, Chengdu 611130, China
3. Forestry Ecological Engineering in the Upper Reaches of Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 611130, China
Interests: tree breeding; population genetics; quantitative genetics; phylogeny; function genomics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Trees are the main component of forest ecosystems, important carriers of global carbon cycle, and a necessary and indispensable renewable resource for human society. The genetic diversity of forests is the important part and the core issue of biodiversity, and the key prerequisite for the protection of forest germplasm resources and breeding utilization. Therefore, genetic diversity and gene analysis are also rapidly developing fields in forest tree breeding and have achieved a lot of fruitful findings. On the one hand, modern biological theories, techniques, and methods, especially molecular biology and biotechnology, such as whole-genome re-sequencing, genome-wide association study (GWAS), and genomic selection (GS), are widely used in forest genetic diversity and gene analysis. On the other hand, the research results and the application of new methods have formed some new theories and disciplines and also greatly developed the theories and methods of forest genetic diversity and gene analysis. Thus, it is time to summarize the current status and the latest research achievements of forest genetic diversity and gene analysis in forest tree breeding, and to promote the protection and breeding utilization of trees.
In this Special Issue, we are looking for genetic diversity and gene analysis in the area of forest tree breeding, including phenotypic and molecular diversity, quantitative genetics, tree conventional and molecular breeding, analysis and identification of germplasm resources, gene function analysis, molecular markers, next-generation sequencing (NGS), and new technologies applied to forest genetic diversity and gene analysis. We encourage studies from all fields, including experimental or field studies, real case studies, review and survey, new marker development, or software tools and methods.
Dr. Hanbo Yang
Dr. Lianghua Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forest genetics
- population genetics
- genetic diversity
- molecular and phenotypic marker
- tree breeding
- conservation and utilization of germplasm
- molecular marker-assisted breeding (MAS)
- quantitative genetics
- function genomics
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