Science, society and biosafety of a field trial with transgenic biofuel poplars

Rebecca Van Acker, Véronique Storme, Geert Goeminne, Bart Ivens, René Custers, Dirk Aerts, Wim Soetaert, John Ralph, Nicholas Santoro, Jean-Charles Leplé, Gilles Pilate, Wout Boerjan
2011 BMC Proceedings  
Forest trees exhibit striking adaptations to the environments in which they grow. A long history of quantitative genetic experimentation has established the genetic basis for many traits, which are likely adaptive since many of them are also correlated with environmental heterogeneity. The genes underlying these traits, however, have largely remained elusive. Recent applications of high-throughput sequencing and genotyping technologies to natural populations of forest Figure 1 (abstract I2) The
more » ... distribution of Douglas-fir and loblolly pine in North America. The black box surrounds the sampling area for Douglas-fir, while the entire range for loblolly pine was sampled.
doi:10.1186/1753-6561-5-s7-i23 fatcat:ulkxqgdupfdktkhsx2kba7pcn4