The integration of functional traits into vulnerability assessments is a promising approach to
quantitatively capture differences in species sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate …

Climate change is affecting Canada’s boreal zone, which includes most of the country’s
managed forests. The impacts of climate change in this zone are expected to be pervasive and …

White spruce (Picea glauca), a gymnosperm tree, has been established as one of the
models for conifer genomics. We describe the draft genome assemblies of two white spruce …

The usefulness of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) in assessing the genetic
stability of somatic embryogenesis-derived populations of black spruce [Picea mariana (Mill.) …

… We are grateful to Sébastien Clément and Ilga Porth for useful comments on a previous
version of the manuscript and to Isabelle Lamarre for technical English editing. Finally, we would …

Background To explore the potential value of high-throughput genotyping assays in the
analysis of large and complex genomes, we designed two highly multiplexed Illumina bead …

Forest ecosystems provide important ecological services and resources, from habitat for
biodiversity to the production of environmentally friendly products, and play a key role in the …

Background The genomic architecture of bud phenology and height growth remains poorly
known in most forest trees. In non model species, QTL studies have shown limited …

Plantation‐grown trees have to cope with an increasing pressure of pest and disease in the
context of climate change, and breeding approaches using genomics may offer efficient and …

Drought intensity and frequency are increasing under global warming, with soil water availability
now being a major factor limiting tree growth in circumboreal forests. Still, the adaptive …