Spruces (Picea spp.) are coniferous trees widespread in boreal and mountainous forests of
the northern hemisphere, with large economic significance and enormous contributions to …

Abstract Black spruce (Picea mariana [Mill.] BSP) is a dominant conifer species in the North
American boreal forest that plays important ecological and economic roles. Here, we present …

Insights from sequenced genomes of major land plant lineages have advanced research in
almost every aspect of plant biology. Until recently, however, assembled genome …

Over the last decade, extensive genetic and genomic resources have been developed for
the conifer white spruce (Picea glauca, Pinaceae), which has one of the largest plant …

Spruce (Picea spp.) species are the dominant component of the circumboreal forest and one
of the most reforested species groups in the world. They have become a reference among …

Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) is a conifer species of substanital economic and
ecological importance. In common with most conifers, the P. abies genome is very large (∼ …

Background Members of the pine family (Pinaceae), especially species of spruce (Picea
spp.) and pine (Pinus spp.), dominate many of the world's temperate and boreal forests …

White spruce (Picea glauca), a gymnosperm tree, has been established as one of the
models for conifer genomics. We describe the draft genome assemblies of two white spruce …

In species with large and complex genomes such as conifers, dense linkage maps are a
useful resource for supporting genome assembly and laying the genomic groundwork at the …

Background Seed plants are composed of angiosperms and gymnosperms, which diverged
from each other around 300 million years ago. While much light has been shed on the …