Gene-Based SNP Discovery and Diversity of Forests Trees
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2017) | Viewed by 4611
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest trees; woody species; genomics; epigenetics; adaptation; natural variability; gene expression and regulation; organogenesis; biomass production; growth regulators
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Dear Colleagues,
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most abundant and widely-distributed markers in plant genomes. The rapid advancement of next-generation sequencing technologies and their associated cost reduction, along with the development of the required bioinformatics resources, has democratized the large-scale discovery of SNPs in forest tree species. Different goals can guide SNP discovery and genotyping. High-throughput SNP genotyping has become a powerful tool to address a range of research areas related to structural and functional genomics, populations genomics, association genomics, conservation genomics, or genomic selection.
The acquisition of a large number of SNPs in both candidate genes and random loci across the genome, and the development of high throughput genotyping are undoubtedly a prerequisite to the implementation for tree breeding. Additionally, SNP-based genomic tools may be applied to natural forest tree populations. SNP genome-wide genotyping allows characterizing genomes at the molecular level and identifying the evolutionary forces responsible for these genomic patterns. This information is highly relevant to understand how forests trees have adapted to their environment and, ultimately, is crucial to support tree improvement.
Dr. María-Teresa Cervera
Dr. Dephine Grivet
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- SNP identification
- Transcriptome
- Exome capture
- Genotyping by Sequencing
- SNP-genotyping, Molecular diversity
- Linkage disequilibrium
- Selection
- Adaptation
