Landscape genomics predicts climate change-related genetic offset for the widespread Platycladus orientalis (Cupressaceae).

ABSTRACT: Understanding and quantifying populations' adaptive genetic variation and their response to climate change are critical to reforestation's seed source selection, forest management decisions, and gene conservation. Landscape genomics combined with geographic and environmental information provide an opportunity to interrogate forest populations' genome-wide variation for understanding the extent to which evolutionary forces shape past and contemporary populations' genetic structure, and identify those populations that may be most at risk under future climate change. Here, we used genotyping by sequencing to generate over 11,000 high-quality variants from Platycladus orientalis range-wide collection to evaluate its diversity and to predict genetic offset under future climate scenarios.

SUBMITTER: Jia KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7086053 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature