[HTML][HTML] Modern strategies to assess and breed forest tree adaptation to changing climate

AJ Cortés, M Restrepo-Montoya… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Medicinal Uses, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacological Activities of Quercus Species

M Taib, Y Rezzak, L Bouyazza… - … and Alternative Medicine, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Quercus species, also known as oak, represent an important genus of the Fagaceae family.
It is widely distributed in temperate forests of the northern hemisphere and tropical climatic …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic analyses highlight innovation and introgression in the continental radiations of Fagaceae across the Northern Hemisphere

BF Zhou, S Yuan, AA Crowl, YY Liang, Y Shi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Northern Hemisphere forests changed drastically in the early Eocene with the diversification
of the oak family (Fagaceae). Cooling climates over the next 20 million years fostered the …

Genome-wide analyses of introgression between two sympatric Asian oak species

R Fu, Y Zhu, Y Liu, Y Feng, RS Lu, Y Li, P Li… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Introgression can be an important source of new alleles for adaption under rapidly changing
environments, perhaps even more important than standing variation. Though introgression …

[HTML][HTML] Tracing the origin of Oriental beech stands across Western Europe and reporting hybridization with European beech–Implications for assisted gene flow

M Kurz, A Kölz, J Gorges, BP Carmona, P Brang… - Forest ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The benefits and risks of human-aided translocation of individuals within the species range,
assisted gene flow (AGF), depend on the genetic divergence, on the rate and direction of …

[HTML][HTML] High-quality genome and methylomes illustrate features underlying evolutionary success of oaks

VL Sork, SJ Cokus, ST Fitz-Gibbon, AV Zimin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Angiosperm phylogenetic diversity is lower in Africa than South America

H Qian, M Kessler, J Zhang, Y Jin, DE Soltis, S Qian… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Although originating from a common Gondwanan flora, the diversity and composition of the
floras of Africa and South America have greatly diverged since continental breakup of Africa …

Adaptation of Mediterranean forest species to climate: Lessons from common garden experiments

JA Ramírez‐Valiente, L Santos del Blanco… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mediterranean ecosystems are biodiversity hotspots located between temperate mesic
climates and semi‐deserts and deserts. Mediterranean climates are characterized by a …

Genome-wide evolutionary response of European oaks during the Anthropocene

D Saleh, J Chen, JC Leplé, T Leroy, L Truffaut… - Evolution …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The pace of tree microevolution during Anthropocene warming is largely unknown. We used
a retrospective approach to monitor genomic changes in oak trees since the Little Ice Age …

[HTML][HTML] An Updated Infrageneric Classification of the North American Oaks (Quercus Subgenus Quercus): Review of the Contribution of Phylogenomic Data to …

PS Manos, AL Hipp - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
The oak flora of North America north of Mexico is both phylogenetically diverse and species-
rich, including 92 species placed in five sections of subgenus Quercus, the oak clade …