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 …

The tree of life is highly reticulate, with the history of population divergence emerging from
populations of gene phylogenies that reflect histories of introgression, lineage sorting and …

The mechanisms underlying mast seeding have traditionally been studied by collecting long-
term observational data on seed crops and correlating seedfall with environmental …

The facility of next‐generation sequencing has led to an explosion of gene catalogs for
novel genomes, transcriptomes and metagenomes, which are functionally uncharacterized …

Quercus dentata Thunb., a dominant forest tree species in northern China, has significant
ecological and ornamental value due to its adaptability and beautiful autumn coloration, with …

The genus Quercus, which emerged∼ 55 million years ago during globally warm
temperatures, diversified into∼ 450 extant species. We present a high-quality de novo …

Quercus variabilis (Fagaceae) is an ecologically and economically important deciduous
broadleaved tree species native to and widespread in East Asia. It is a valuable woody …

Contamination of genomes is an increasingly recognized problem affecting several
downstream applications, from comparative evolutionary genomics to metagenomics. Here …

Abstract Background The Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima) is widely cultivated in
China for nut production. This plant also plays an important ecological role in afforestation …

Abstract Mongolian oak (Quercus mongolica Fisch.) is an ecologically and economically
important white oak species native to and widespread in the temperate zone of East Asia …