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- Title
Using landscape genomics to delineate seed and breeding zones for lodgepole pine.
- Authors
Yu, Yue; Aitken, Sally N.; Rieseberg, Loren H.; Wang, Tongli
- Abstract
Summary: Seed and breeding zones traditionally are delineated based on local adaptation of phenotypic traits associated with climate variables, an approach requiring long‐term field experiments. In this study, we applied a landscape genomics approach to delineate seed and breeding zones for lodgepole pine.We used a gradient forest (GF) model to select environment‐associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using three SNP datasets (full, neutral and candidate) and 20 climate variables for 1906 lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) individuals in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. The two GF models built with the full (28 954) and candidate (982) SNPs were compared.The GF models identified winter‐related climate as major climatic factors driving genomic patterns of lodgepole pine's local adaptation. Based on the genomic gradients predicted by the full and candidate GF models, lodgepole pine distribution range in British Columbia and Alberta was delineated into six seed and breeding zones.Our approach is a novel and effective alternative to traditional common garden approaches for delineating seed and breeding zone, and could be applied to tree species lacking data from provenance trials or common garden experiments.
- Subjects
BRITISH Columbia; ALBERTA; LODGEPOLE pine; GENOMICS; SINGLE nucleotide polymorphisms; PHENOTYPIC plasticity; SEEDS
- Publication
New Phytologist, 2022, Vol 235, Issue 4, p1653
- ISSN
0028-646X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/nph.18223