Book of Abstracts: Introduction, Breeding, Propagation and Deployment of Pacific Northwest Conifers Around the World: 70 years of Progress, Opportunities and Challenges
Dear Tree Improvers, Researchers, Seed Orchardists, Foresters, and other Colleagues around the world: We are pleased to offer a most cordial welcome to the first ever virtual meeting of IUFRO Working Group 2.02.05 “Breeding and Genetic Resources of Pacific Northwest Conifers”! Yes, there has been much disruption since covid-19 made its appearance, but PNW conifer trees have kept growing and providing many benefits in their area of origin and around the world! Breeding programs are entering their third or fourth cycle, high-gain orchard seed is becoming abundant, and the need to respond to changing climates grows ever more pressing. WG 2.02.05 has not met since Forest Genetics 2013 in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada in July 2013. We feel this meeting is overdue. By means of modern technology, we hope you will join from wherever you are based, learn about and share your recent genetics-related experiences, research and progress with these magnificent tree species! Weyerhaeuser’s Advanced Generation Breeding and Testing of Douglas-fir; Overview of British Columbia’s Seed Orchard Programs; Early Results from New Realized Gain Trials with Western Hemlock on the British Columbia Coast; The PNW Seed Source Project: A low-cost collaborative approach to provide both data and demonstration
in support of climate change adaptation decisions; Overview of tree breeding programs in the interior of British Columbia, Canada; Genetic assessment of the Sitka spruce British breeding programme; Development of a 36K SNP array for radiata pine; Low-density SNP Genotyping in Douglas-fir using Targeted Genotyping-by-sequencing;
Scaling of Estimated Breeding Values in Australian Pinus radiata Breeding Program; Performance of lodgepole pine provenances in hemiboreal forests of Europe, Latvia; Updates on Cooperative Genetic Improvement for Coastal Douglas-fir in western Washington, western Oregon, and NW California; Testing and deployment of coastal redwood in California and Oregon; Biotic threats to key Pacific Northwest Species in Western and Central Europe;
Genomics-enabled radiata pine breeding in New Zealand; Deployment Bottlenecks: Cone and Seed Processing, Storage and Inventory Management; Introduction, tree breeding and use of PNW Conifers in Sweden; Genomics-assisted breeding of western white pine resistance to white pine blister rust; Genecology of Forest Health Traits in western North American conifers; Potential of adaptation to drought in Douglas-fir: twenty years of research efforts;
Will climate change result into a new era of introductions of conifers? A case study about needs, opportunities and risks in Austria; Developing and Using White Pine Blister Rust-Resistant Populations of Pinus monticola, P. albicaulis
and P. lambertiana; Port-Oford-cedar (POC, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) and resistance to Port-Orford-cedar root
disease and Stigmina foliage blight; Optimizing Assisted Gene Flow for Forests; A SNP marks the spot: a high-density linkage map for UK Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis [Bong.] Carr.); Whole-exome sequencing unravels genomic signals of climatic adaptation in Douglas-fir Drought screening in ponderosa pine; Vegetative propagation of Pseudotsuga menziesii by refined somatic embryogenesis and its; application in multilateral field trials; A Sentinel Network Information Platform for N. American Woody Flora: Leveraging; Established ex situ Plantings of PNW Conifers and Integration with Parallel Efforts; Genomic Selection in western redcedar breeding program in BC: from proof of concept to application; Common-garden experiment reveals clinal trends of bud phenology in black spruce populations from a latitudinal gradient in the boreal forest; Growth of Sitka Spruce and Douglas Fir in European hemiboreal forests, Latvia; Diverse Pacific Northwest Forests for the 21st Century – Developing Secondary Conifers;
Could Douglas fir be an alternative species in a changing climate? Comparative analysis with local Norway spruce in western Romania; The German breeding concept on Douglas-fir – current status; Pacific Northwest Conifers in Finland; Should we plant trees at higher latitudes or at higher elevations to compensate for climate change? An evaluation of frost risks; Searching for White Pine Blister Rust Resistance in Foxtail Pine (Pinus balfouriana); Genetic variation and climate response of radial growth of Larix olgensis at four trails in northeast China Early Assessment on Realized Genetic Gains from Second-Cycle Western Hemlock Tree Improvement.
