Studying the genetics of adaptation to new environments in ecologically and industrially
important tree species is currently a major research line in the fields of plant science and …

Highly efficient and accurate selection of elite genotypes can lead to dramatic shortening of
the breeding cycle in major crops relevant for sustaining present demands for food, feed …

The breeding of forest trees is only a few decades old, and is a much more complicated,
longer, and expensive endeavor than the breeding of agricultural crops. One breeding cycle …

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 …

Background Genomic selection (GS) or genomic prediction is a promising approach for tree
breeding to obtain higher genetic gains by shortening time of progeny testing in breeding …

Premise An informatics approach was used for the construction of an Axiom genotyping
array from heterogeneous, high‐throughput sequence data to assess the complex genome …

Background Genomic prediction (GP) and genome-wide association (GWA) analyses are
currently being employed to accelerate breeding cycles and to identify alleles or genomic …

This chapter provides an overview of the genomic selection progress in long-lived forest tree
species. Factors affecting the prediction accuracy in genomic prediction are assessed with …

Tree improvement programs often focus on improving productivity-related traits; however,
under present climate change scenarios, climate change-related (adaptive) traits should …

Forest trees like poplar are particular in many ways compared to other domesticated
species. They have long juvenile phases, ongoing crop-wild gene flow, extensive …