Nathalie Isabel

TL;DR: This study provides a basic understanding of the genomic architecture related to bud flush, bud set, and height growth in a conifer species, and will serve as a basic reference to functional and association genetic studies of adaptation and growth in Picea taxa.

TL;DR: The relevance of using dominant random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprints for estimating population differentiation was investigated when typically small population sample sizes were used, but estimates were generally inflated.

TL;DR: Genotype–phenotype associations using these new tree‐ring phenotypes validated nine candidate genes identified in a previous genetic–environment association study and provides avenues for future genomic studies on functional adaptation in forest trees.

TL;DR: The results indicate that much genomic evolution has occurred in the seed plant lineage before the split between gymnosperms and angiosperms, and that the pace of evolution of the genome macro-structure has been much slower in the gymnosperm lineage leading to extent conifers than that seen for the same period of time in flowering plants.

TL;DR: The combined information from these three Picea genomes validated and improved large-scale genome comparisons at the inter-generic level in the family Pinaceae by allowing for the identification of 11 homoeologous linkage groups between PiceA and Pinus, and nine such groups betweenPicea and Pseudotsuga menziesii.