Populations are locally adapted when populations have the highest relative fitness at their
home sites, and lower fitness in other parts of the range. Results from the extensive …

Association studies are becoming the experimental approach of choice to dissect complex
traits in many organisms from humans to model plant systems. The candidate gene based …

In addition to their value for wood products, members of the genus Populus (poplars)
provide a range of ecological services, including carbon sequestration, bioremediation …

The first papers on plant molecular population genetics were published approximately 10
years ago. Since that time, well over 50 additional studies of plant nucleotide polymorphism …

Molecular markers have proven to be invaluable tools for assessing plants' genetic
resources by improving our understanding with regards to the distribution and the extent of …

Forest trees have gained much attention in recent years as nonclassical model eukaryotes
for population, evolutionary and ecological genomic studies. Because of low domestication …

DNA polymorphism at 22 loci was studied in an average of 47 Norway spruce [Picea abies
(L.) Karst.] haplotypes sampled in seven populations representative of the natural range …

Populus is an important model organism in forest biology, but levels of nucleotide
polymorphisms and linkage disequilibrium have never been investigated in natural …

Understanding the genetic basis of local adaptation is challenging due to the subtle balance
among conflicting evolutionary forces that are involved in its establishment and …

Phytochromes are photoreceptors that provide plants with circadian, seasonal, and
positional information critical for the control of germination, seedling development, shade …