GenTree receives "Les Etoiles de l'Europe" award
The H2020 project GenTree was awarded the prestigious "Prix spécial du jury" at the 8th annual "Les…
Videos of the presentations at the final conference available on a dedicated video channel
All presentations at the final conference held in Avignon, France on 27-31 January 2020 were filmed.Genetics to the rescue: managing forests sustainably in a changing world
A conference to conclude GenTreeHow diverse are breeding populations of European forest tree species?
Domestication and breeding, for example of crop plants, inevitably results in a loss of genetic…
Revealing the stories of European trees
Understanding the past will offer important clues to the futureTraining workshop equips forest tree breeders with new tools
A training workshop for tree breeders focused on practicing use of software tools for optimum…
What makes trees of the same species differ from site to site?
Trees, like people, come in different sizes and present variants in the traits they have in common…
Science needs management data to help forest managers adapt to climate change
Open access data on forest management activities could bridge the gap between research and…
Looking at future forest sustainability through many lenses
March 7, 2019
The GenTree project owes much of its strength to its interdisciplinarity. Researchers approach the…
Preparing to match tree rings with tree genetics
Two workshops laid the basis for linking a tree’s phenotype, expressed in its growth rings, to its…Untangling nature and nurture in forest trees
Have you ever looked at trees in autumn and wondered why some of them still have green leaves, some…Summer school in the Baltics – an unforgettable experience
By Oliver Reutimann Conducting and interpreting genetic association studies can be complex and…A crucial step towards conserving forest genetic resources in the UK
A workshop focused on developing a national Strategy for UK Forest Genetic Resources (FGR) was held…Reading the pages of a tree’s biography
April 24, 2018
GenTree’s multi-scale tree sampling project resulted in more than 15,000 wood cores from trees…From the field to policy decisions
GenTree partners discussed sampling and policy work during the project's second annual meeting in…Software to speed tree breeding
Tree breeding has three related goals that are sometimes in conflict; to improve economic traits, to…Explaining forest genetic resources to people in Paris
The French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) used its booth at the 55th Salon…What does forest genetic monitoring mean in practice?
A Stakeholders' event on forest genetic monitoring took place on 24 and 25 October 2017 in…GenTree film at International PARISCIENCE Film Festival
Every year, the International Pariscience Film Festival brings together the best international…Summer school on polygenic adaptation in Switzerland
by Christian Rellstab Many phenotypic traits, like growth, are known to be driven by more than one…Kickstarting conservation of forest genetic resources in the UK
UK forests contain unique genetic variation for key adaptive traits as they are located in a…Sampling sites visualized on a map
A major sampling effort undertaken within GenTree can now be appreciated through an interactive map…Are beech populations in Southern Europe threatened by climate change?
Due to climate change, the habitats of the most southern populations of many tree species in Europe…Consulting stakeholders for better conservation of forest genetic resources in Europe
On 6 April 2017, GenTree invited EUFGIS national focal points to a consultation held in Rome…How genomic research can help preserve world's forests
Forests face great challenges from climate change, including incidence of pests and diseases.…
Sampling thousands of trees across Europe: major joint effort of GenTree
GenTree uses a multi-scale tree sampling scheme to study gene flow and the role of genetic diversity…20,000 km across Italy to collect tree samples
At the beginning of the field sampling period, we were quite unaware of what was ahead of us!Whilst…
