Integrating evolutionary genomics of forest trees to inform future tree breeding amid rapid climate change.

ABSTRACT: Global climate change is leading to rapid and drastic shifts in environmental conditions, posing threats to biodiversity and nearly all life forms worldwide. Forest trees serve as foundational components of terrestrial ecosystems and play a crucial and leading role in combating and mitigating the adverse effects of extreme climate events, despite their own vulnerability to these threats. Therefore, understanding and monitoring how natural forests respond to rapid climate change is a key priority for biodiversity conservation. Recent progress in evolutionary genomics, driven primarily by cutting-edge multi-omics technologies, offers powerful new tools to address several key issues. These include precise delineation of species and evolutionary units, inference of past evolutionary histories

SUBMITTER: Feng J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11573912 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature