Advanced Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance in Poplar
Poplar is one of the most important forest trees because of its high economic value. Thanks to the fast-growing rate, easy vegetative propagation and transformation, and availability of genomic resources, poplar has been considered the model species for forest genetics, genomics, and breeding. Being...
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| author | Chiara Biselli Lorenzo Vietto Laura Rosso Luigi Cattivelli Giuseppe Nervo Agostino Fricano |
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| description | Poplar is one of the most important forest trees because of its high economic value. Thanks to the fast-growing rate, easy vegetative propagation and transformation, and availability of genomic resources, poplar has been considered the model species for forest genetics, genomics, and breeding. Being a field-growing tree, poplar is exposed to environmental threats, including biotic stresses that are becoming more intense and diffused because of global warming. Current poplar farming is mainly based on monocultures of a few elite clones and the expensive and long-term conventional breeding programmes of perennial tree species cannot face current climate-change challenges. Consequently, new tools and methods are necessary to reduce the limits of traditional breeding related to the long generation time and to discover new sources of resistance. Recent advances in genomics, marker-assisted selection, genomic prediction, and genome editing offer powerful tools to efficiently exploit the <i>Populus</i> genetic diversity and allow enabling molecular breeding to support accurate early selection, increasing the efficiency, and reducing the time and costs of poplar breeding, that, in turn, will improve our capacity to face or prevent the emergence of new diseases or pests. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4e248afcf354fcea9ad26a1080e6ff72023-12-03T12:55:30ZengMDPI AGPlants2223-77472022-08-011115203210.3390/plants11152032Advanced Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance in PoplarChiara Biselli0Lorenzo Vietto1Laura Rosso2Luigi Cattivelli3Giuseppe Nervo4Agostino Fricano5Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Viticulture and Enology, Viale Santa Margherita 80, 52100 Arezzo, ItalyCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Strada Frassineto 35, 15033 Casale Monferrato, ItalyCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Strada Frassineto 35, 15033 Casale Monferrato, ItalyCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Via San Protaso 302, 29017 Fiorenzuola d’Arda, ItalyCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Strada Frassineto 35, 15033 Casale Monferrato, ItalyCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Via San Protaso 302, 29017 Fiorenzuola d’Arda, ItalyPoplar is one of the most important forest trees because of its high economic value. Thanks to the fast-growing rate, easy vegetative propagation and transformation, and availability of genomic resources, poplar has been considered the model species for forest genetics, genomics, and breeding. Being a field-growing tree, poplar is exposed to environmental threats, including biotic stresses that are becoming more intense and diffused because of global warming. Current poplar farming is mainly based on monocultures of a few elite clones and the expensive and long-term conventional breeding programmes of perennial tree species cannot face current climate-change challenges. Consequently, new tools and methods are necessary to reduce the limits of traditional breeding related to the long generation time and to discover new sources of resistance. Recent advances in genomics, marker-assisted selection, genomic prediction, and genome editing offer powerful tools to efficiently exploit the <i>Populus</i> genetic diversity and allow enabling molecular breeding to support accurate early selection, increasing the efficiency, and reducing the time and costs of poplar breeding, that, in turn, will improve our capacity to face or prevent the emergence of new diseases or pests.https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/11/15/2032poplarclimate changebreedingbiotic stressresistanceQTL |
| spellingShingle | Chiara Biselli Lorenzo Vietto Laura Rosso Luigi Cattivelli Giuseppe Nervo Agostino Fricano Advanced Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance in Poplar Plants poplar climate change breeding biotic stress resistance QTL |
| title | Advanced Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance in Poplar |
| title_full | Advanced Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance in Poplar |
| title_fullStr | Advanced Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance in Poplar |
| title_full_unstemmed | Advanced Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance in Poplar |
| title_short | Advanced Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance in Poplar |
| title_sort | advanced breeding for biotic stress resistance in poplar |
| topic | poplar climate change breeding biotic stress resistance QTL |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/11/15/2032 |
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