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 …

Stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) has received limited attention in terms of genetic research.
However, genomic techniques hold promise for decoding the stone pine genome and …

Background The advent of high-throughput genotyping technologies coupled to genomic
prediction methods established a new paradigm to integrate genomics and breeding. We …

The conifers are a diverse and ancient group of seed plants of monophyletic origin that
arose more than 300 million years ago (Rothwell and Scheckler 1988). They are uniformly …

Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) in plants typically suffer from limited statistical
power. An alternative to the logistical and cost challenge of increasing sample sizes is to …

Forest ecosystems are increasingly challenged by extreme events, for example, drought,
storms, pest attacks, and fungal pathogen outbreaks, causing severe ecological and …

Genomic selection models were investigated to predict several complex traits in breeding
populations of Zea mays L. and Eucalyptus globulus Labill. For this, the following methods of …

Eucalyptus globulus (Labill.) is one of the most important cultivated eucalypts in temperate
and subtropical regions and has been successfully subjected to intensive breeding. In this …

Limber pine (Pinus flexilis) is a keystone species of high‐elevation forest ecosystems of
western North America, but some parts of the geographic range have high infection and …

Micronutrient deficiency, also known as the hidden hunger, affects over two billion people
worldwide. Potato is the third most consumed food crops in the world, and is therefore a …