P21 - UOULU University of Oulu

Pentti Kaiteran Katu 1
90014 Oulu
FINLAND
http://www.oulu.fi

The UOULU plant geneticists have long experience in forest population and quantitative genetics, especially in studies of the genetics of adaptation. The main interest has been the genetic basis of the clinal variation of timing of vegetative growth in pines. For this purpose, the group has used extensively molecular population genetics methods, including marker and sequence variation, often in. collaborations. Metla has a long tradition in conducting quantitative genetic studies on e.g., phenology, growth rate, cold tolerance, resistance against fungi and herbivores in e.g. Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies, Betula pendula, Acer platanoides and Quercus robur.


The key persons involved in the NoE are:

Outi Savolainen is Professor of genetics at the University of Oulu since 1990. Her research interestsis in population and evolutionary genetics of trees and Arabidopsis relatives. She is Coordinator of EUFPIV project Motors, coordinator of EU FPV project Treesnips. She is Associate editor of Genetics andTree Genetics and Genomes and she works at the Editorial board of Molecular Ecology.

Katri Kärkkäinen is professor in forest genetics at the Finnish Forest Research Institute. She did her PhD in genetics in 1994 at the University of Oulu.

Matti Haapanen is a senior researcher, D. Sc. (Agr & For) 2002 at the University of Helsinki. He has is an expert in quantitative genetics and experimental design.