Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis in Forest Trees
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics and Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 169
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Interests: functional genomics; tree physiology; plant molecular biology; plant biotechnology
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Interests: molecular markers; tree genetics; somatic embryogenesis; plant molecular biology; plant tissue culture; genetic engineering
Interests: timber and biomass forest cultivation; afforestation on difficult sites; urban forestry; tree eco-physiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Evolution is the core aspect of the origin of life. As the most widely distributed and highly important ecosystem in the world, the evolutionary research of forests is closely related to human beings. Molecular evolutionary genetics analysis in forestry is the scientific study of genetic variation in forest populations, mainly focusing on the transmission, expression, and interaction of genetic information with the environment. The forest tree genome has a complex structure, including a large number of repetitive sequences. In addition, it also exhibits high levels of heterozygosity and polymorphism, which collectively influence genetic variation and evolution. With the development of biotechnology, more and more new technologies and methods are being applied to the study of molecular evolutionary genetics in forestry. For example, multi-omics technology could quickly obtain a large amount of genomic and transcriptome data; bioinformatics and computational biology can be used to analyze and interpret a large amount of biological data. These technologies and methods provide strong support for a deeper understanding of the genetic variation and evolution of forestry. The application of molecular evolutionary genetics in forestry is very extensive, including, but not limited to, forest tree breeding, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, etc., which not only has important values for understanding the adaptive evolution, population dynamics, and phylogenetic relationships of forestry, but also plays a guiding role in forest breeding and improvement. As the Guest Editors of this Special Issue, we would like to invite you to participate in this venture by contributing a paper on a topic of your choice within the broad research area of "Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis in Forest Trees".
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Gene mutations and variations in forestry;
- Genetics and evolution of forestry populations;
- Evolutionary genetics analysis of forestry genomes;
- Molecular markers and genetic linkage maps in forestry;
- Evolution analysis of key gene families in forestry.
Dr. Zhong Chen
Dr. Xiong Yang
Prof. Dr. Liming Jia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- evolution
- population genetics
- comparative genomics
- gene family
- omics
- tree genetics and genomics
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