FORGENIUS Title: Improving access to FORest GENetic resources Information and services for end-USers (DBA.AD002.409)

Thematic area

Biology, agriculture and food sciences

Project area

Structure responsible for the research project

Institute of plant genetics (IBBR)

Project manager

GIOVANNIGIUSEPPE VENDRAMIN
Phone number: 0555225728
Email: giovanni.vendramin@ibbr.cnr.it

Abstract

Conservation Unit (GCU) network, in the context of the challenges associated to climate change (CC).
The GCU network is the natural forest equivalent of a core collection for crops, with the major
difference that population diversity is managed and conserved dynamically in situ and has to respond to challenges that are closer to the conservation of natural ecosystems than to the conservation of sensu stricto germplasm. To achieve these goals, one has to describe, understand, take advantage of, and favour, the natural mechanism contributing to population and ecosystem resilience ("dynamic management and documentation of GenRes collections"). The proposal has three types of goals: (i) improving the characterisation of the GCUs; (ii) providing indicators and predictions on their resilience; and (iii) providing end-users with tools for the assessment of GCUs.
We will proceed to the characterisation of the GCUs at the continental level from the genetic standpoint by applying state-of-the-art genomic tools. Genomic data will be used to infer overall population properties (such as effective population size, frequency of deleterious alleles, frequency of loci under selection)

Goals

Conservation Unit (GCU) network, in the context of the challenges associated to climate change (CC).
The GCU network is the natural forest equivalent of a core collection for crops, with the major
difference that population diversity is managed and conserved dynamically in situ and has to respond to challenges that are closer to the conservation of natural ecosystems than to the conservation of sensu stricto germplasm. To achieve these goals, one has to describe, understand, take advantage of, and favour, the natural mechanism contributing to population and ecosystem resilience ("dynamic management and documentation of GenRes collections"). The proposal has three types of goals: (i) improving the characterisation of the GCUs; (ii) providing indicators and predictions on their resilience; and (iii) providing end-users with tools for the assessment of GCUs.
We will proceed to the characterisation of the GCUs at the continental level from the genetic standpoint by applying state-of-the-art genomic tools. Genomic data will be used to infer overall population properties (such as effective population size, frequency of deleterious alleles, frequency of loci under selection)

Start date of activity

01/01/2021

Keywords

Genetic Conservation Unit, Forest resilience, Plant genetics

Last update: 16/04/2024