Forest Genomics for Conserving Adaptive Genetic Diversity

Table of Contents

by

Konstantin V. Krutovskii and David B. Neale

July 2001

Forestry Department Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Forest Genetic Resources Working Papers

Forest Resources Development Service
Forest Resources Division
Forestry Department

Working Paper FGR/3 (E)
FAO, Rome (Italy)

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Table of Contents

DISCLAIMER

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Why it is important to measure and save adaptive genetic diversity in forest tree populations
1.2. Traditional methods to measure adaptive genetic diversity

1.2.1. Field Experiments
1.2.2. Molecular genetic markers

2. HOW FOREST GENETIC CONSERVATION CAN BENEFIT FROM NEW ACHIEVEMENTS IN GENOMICS

2.1. Introduction to genomics

2.1.1. Structural genomics
2.1.2. Functional genomics
2.1.3. Comparative genomics
2.1.4. Associative genomics
2.1.5. Statistical genomics

2.2. DNA sequencing of entire genomes
2.3. Gene discovery and expressed sequence tag polymorphisms (ESTPs)
2.4. Physical and genetic mapping of the whole genome using numerous genetic markers
2.5. Analysis of genetic control of complex adaptive traits via quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping
2.6. Candidate gene mapping of adaptive genes
2.7. Comparative mapping of adaptive genes

3. BIOINFORMATICS AND GENOMIC DATABASES

4. CONCLUSIONS

5. ANNEXE I