Champions of winter survival: cold acclimation and molecular regulation of cold hardiness in evergreen conifers

CYY Chang, K Bräutigam, NPA Hüner… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Evergreen conifers are champions of winter survival, based on their remarkable ability to
acclimate to cold and develop cold hardiness. Counterintuitively, autumn cold acclimation is …

A cross‐scale approach to unravel the molecular basis of plant phenology in temperate and tropical climates

A Satake, A Nagahama, E Sasaki - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plants have evolved to time their leafing, flowering and fruiting in appropriate seasons for
growth, reproduction and resting. As a consequence of their adaptation to geographically …

The rise of angiosperms pushed conifers to decline during global cooling

FL Condamine, D Silvestro… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Competition among species and entire clades can impact species diversification and
extinction, which can shape macroevolutionary patterns. The fossil record shows successive …

The western redcedar genome reveals low genetic diversity in a self-compatible conifer

TJ Shalev, OG El-Dien, MMS Yuen… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
We assembled the 9.8-Gbp genome of western redcedar (WRC; Thuja plicata), an
ecologically and economically important conifer species of the Cupressaceae. The genome …

Transcriptome analysis of Pinus halepensis under drought stress and during recovery

H Fox, A Doron-Faigenboim, G Kelly… - Tree …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Forest trees use various strategies to cope with drought stress and these strategies involve
complex molecular mechanisms. Pinus halepensis Miller (Aleppo pine) is found throughout …

The genomics of local adaptation in trees: are we out of the woods yet?

BM Lind, M Menon, CE Bolte, TM Faske… - Tree genetics & …, 2018 - Springer
There is substantial interest in uncovering the genetic basis of the traits underlying adaptive
responses in tree species, as this information will ultimately aid conservation and industrial …

Evaluating genomic data for management of local adaptation in a changing climate: A lodgepole pine case study

CR Mahony, IR MacLachlan, BM Lind… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate genomic data, relative to phenotypic and climatic data, as a basis for assisted
gene flow and genetic conservation. Using a seedling common garden trial of 281 …

[图书][B] The conifers

DB Neale, NC Wheeler, DB Neale, NC Wheeler - 2019 - Springer
The conifers are a diverse and ancient group of seed plants of monophyletic origin that
arose more than 300 million years ago (Rothwell and Scheckler 1988). They are uniformly …

Development of a single nucleotide polymorphism array for population genomic studies in four European pine species

A Perry, W Wachowiak, A Downing… - Molecular Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Pines are some of the most ecologically and economically important tree species in the
world, and many have enormous natural distributions or have been extensively planted …

Functional and morphological evolution in gymnosperms: a portrait of implicated gene families

AR De La Torre, A Piot, B Liu, B Wilhite… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Gymnosperms diverged from their sister plant clade of flowering plants 300 Mya.
Morphological and functional divergence between the two major seed plant clades involved …