Link - TroCoGen

Promoting a functional and comparative understanding of the conifer genome-implementing applied aspects for more productive and adapted forests.

The main goal of this project is to develop an integrative and multidisciplinary genomic research in conifers, using high-throughput platforms for sequencing, genotyping and functional analysis, to unravel genome organization and identification of genes and gene networks controlling important ecological and economic traits, such as those related to the control and the reduction of climatic change impact in relation to growth, drought and cold stress.

ProCoGen will endeavour to integrate the outcomes of other international initiatives especially from America (Pinus taeda), Sweden (Picea abies) and Canada (Picea glauca, P. sitchensis, P. mariana) and focus its research efforts on model tree species representing two pine sub-famililes, from different European regions, of high economic importance:

Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster, Atlantic and Mediterranean Europe), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris, Central and Northern Europe), Norway spruce (Picea abies, Central and Northern Europe), Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) of high economic interest in UK

Further information can be found on the ProCoGen website.