Journal
BMC GENETICS
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12863-020-0821-1
Keywords
Climate change; Clonal forestry; Universal response function; Genotype x environment interaction; Sequoia sempervirens
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- Ministry of Primary Industry through Special Farm Forestry project [404886]
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BackgroundEffective matching of genotypes and environments is required for the species to reach optimal productivity and act effectively for carbon sequestration. A common garden experiment across five different environments was undertaken to assess genotype x environment interaction (GxE) of coast redwood in order to understand the performance of genotypes across environments.ResultsThe quantitative genetic analysis discovered no GxE between investigated environments for diameter at breast height (DBH). However, no genetic component was detected at one environment possibly due to stressful conditions. The implementation of universal response function allowed for the identification of important environmental factors affecting species productivity. Additionally, this approach enabled us to predict the performance of species across the New Zealand environmental conditions.ConclusionsIn combination with quantitative genetic analysis which identified genetically superior material, the URF model can directly identify the optimal geographical regions to maximize productivity. However, the finding of ideally uncorrelated climatic variables for species with narrow ecological amplitude is rather challenging, which complicates construction of informative URF model. This, along with a small number of tested environments, tended to overfit a prediction model which resulted in extreme predictions in untested environments.
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