Genetics
Alberto, F.J., S.N. Aitken, R. Alia, S.C. González-Martínez, H. Hanninen, A. Kremer, F. Lefèvre, T. Lenormand, S. Yeaman, R.W. Whetten, and O. Savolainen. 2013. Potential for evolutionary responses to climate change – evidence from tree populations. Global Change Biology 19(6): 1645-1661. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12181
Aspinwall, M.J., S.E. McKeand, and J.S. King. 2012. Carbon sequestration from 40 years of planting genetically improved loblolly pine across the Southeast United States. Forest Science 58(5): 446-456. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/forsci.11-058
Chhatre, V., T. Byram, D.B. Neale, J.L. Wegrzyn, and K.V. Krutovsky. 2013. Genetic structure and association mapping of adaptive and selective traits in the East Texas loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) breeding populations. Tree Genetics and Genomes 9(5):1161-1178. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11295-013-0624-x
Dasgupta, M. G., V. Dharanishanthi, I. Agarwal, and K. V. Krutovsky. 2015. Development of genetic markers in Eucalyptus species by target enrichment and exome sequencing. PLoS One 10(1): e0116528. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116528
Eckert, A. J., J. L. Wegrzyn, J. D. Liechty, J. M. Lee, W. P. Cumbie, J. M. Davis, B. Goldfarb, C. A. Loopstra, S. R. Palle, T. Quesada, C. H. Langley, and D. B. Neale. 2013. The evolutionary genetics of the genes underlying phenotypic associations for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda, Pinaceae). Genetics 195:1353-1372. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.157198.
Egbäck, S., B.P. Bullock, F. Isik, and S. McKeand. 2015. Height-diameter relationships for different genetic planting stock of loblolly pine at age six. Forest Science 61(3): 424-428. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.5849/forsci.14-015
Farjat, A.E., Isik, F., Reich, B.J., Whetten, R.W., McKeand, S.E. 2015. Modeling Climate Change Effects on the Height Growth of Loblolly Pine. Forest Science 61 (4, 5): 703-715. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.5849/forsci.14-075
Isik, F. 2014. Genomic selection in forest tree breeding: the concept and an outlook to the future. New Forests 45(3): 379-401.
Koralewski, T. E., J. E. Brooks, and K. V. Krutovsky, 2014. Molecular evolution of drought tolerance and wood strength related candidate genes in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Silvae Genetica 63(1-2): 59-66.
Kim, T.J., B.P. Bullock, and S.E. McKeand. 2015. Spatial autocorrelation among different levels of genetic control and spacings in loblolly pine. Forest Science 61(3): 438-444. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.5849/forsci.14-034
Koralewski, T. E., H.-H. Wang, W. E. Grant, and T. D. Byram. 2015. Plants on the move: Assisted migration of forest trees in the face of climate change. Forest Ecology and Management 344: 30-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.02.014
Neale, D.B., J. L. Wegrzyn, K.A. Stevens, A.V. Zimin, D. Puiu, M.W. Crepeau, C. Cadeno, M. Koriabine, A.E. Hotz-Morris, J.D. Liechty, P.J. Martinez-Garcia, H.A. Vasquez-gross, B.Y. Lin J.J. Qieve, W.M. Dougherty, S. Furentes-Soriano, L.-S. Wu, D. Gilbert, G. Marcais, M. Rogerts, C. Holt, M. Yandell, J.M. Davis, K.E. Smith, J. FD Dean, W.W. Lorenz, R.W. Whetten, R. Sederoff, N. Wheeler, P.E. McGuire, D. Main, C.A. Loopstra, K. Moctaitis, P.J. dejong, J.A. Yorke, S.L Salzberg, C.H. Langley. 2014. Decoding the massive genome of loblolly pine using haploid DNA and novel assembly strategies. Genome Biology 15:R59 http://genomebiology.com/2014/15/3/R59
Palle, S. R., C. M. Seeve, A. J. Eckert, J. L. Wegrzyn, D. B. Neale, C. A. Loopstra. 2013. Association of loblolly pine xylem development gene expression with single nucleotide polymorphisms. Tree Physiology 33:763-774. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpt054
Resende, M.F.R., Jr., P. Muñoz, J.J. Acosta, G.F. Peter, J.M. Davis, D. Grattapaglia, M.D.V. Resende, and M. Kirst. 2012. Accelerating the domestication of trees using genomic selection: Accuracy of prediction models across ages and environments. New Phytologist 193:617-624. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03895.x
Resende, M.F.R.,Jr., P. Muñoz, M.D.V. Resende, D.J. Garrick, R.L. Fernando, J.M. Davis, E.J. Jokela, T.A. Martin, G.F. Peter, and M. Kirst. 2012. Accuracy of genomic selection methods in a standard dataset of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Genetics 190: 1503-1510. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.111.137026
Smith, B.C., B.P. Bullock, F. Isik, and S.E. McKeand. 2014. Modeling genetic effects on growth of diverse provenances and families of loblolly pine across optimum and deficient nutrient regimes. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44: 1453–1461.
Wegrzyn J.L., J.D. Liechty, K.A. Stevens L.-S. Wu, C.A. Loopstra, H.A. Vasquez-Gross, W.M. Dougherty, B.Y. Lin, J.J. Zieve, P.J. Martinez-Garcia, C. Holt C M. Yandell, A.V. Zimin, J.A. Yorke, M.W. Crepeau, D. Puiu, S.L. Salzberg, P.J. de Jong, K. Mockaitis, D. Main, C.H. Langley, and D.B. Neale. 2014. Unique features of the loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) megagenome revealed through sequence annotation. Genetics 196:891-909. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.159996.
Westbrook J. W., V. E. Chhatre, L-S. Wu, S. Chamala, L. G. Neves, P. Muñoz, P. J. Martínez-García, D. B. Neale, M. Kirst, K. Mockaitis, C. D. Nelson, G. F. Peter, J. M. Davis, and C. S. Echt. 2015. A consensus genetic map for Pinus taeda and Pinus elliottii and extent of linkage disequilibrium in two genotype-phenotype discovery populations of P. taeda. G3 (Bethesda), in press (available online at http://www.g3journal.org/content/early/2015/06/11/g3.115.019588.abstract)
Zapata-Valenzuela, J., F. Ogut, A. Kegley, W.P. Cumbie, F. Isik, B. Li, and S.E. McKeand. 2014. Seedling evaluation of Atlantic Coastal and Piedmont sources of Pinus taeda L. and their hybrids for cold hardiness. Forest Science 61(1):169–175. http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/forsci.12-610






