The Genetics Team of Pierroton
is now part of the
BIOGECO UMR

Forestry Research Station of Cestas

(INRA Bordeaux)

Workshop : Interactions Biotiques dans les Communautés : Théorie & Modélisation
16 and 17 December at INRA de La Grande Ferrade.

LABORATORY OF FOREST GENETICS AND TREE IMPROVEMENT

The Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Tree Improvement of INRA Cestas is conducting activities in population and quantitative genetics of temperate and tropical tree species. The activities are oriented in five different fields :

1) Population and evolutionary genetics of Fagaceae species (mainly Quercus (oaks) and Fagus (beech)), tropical trees of the French Guyana rain forest and Maritime pine,

2) Genetic mapping, QTL analysis and marker assisted selection in Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) and Eucalypts (Eucalyptus urophylla and E. grandis)

3) Proteome analysis (see the Protéome Vert Web site)

4) Genome analysis

• SSR Database
• SNP database

5) Tree improvement and selection methods in Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster), Black pine (Pinus nigra), Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) and Northern red oak (Q. rubra).

We are involved in the following projects : (* Web site hosted on this server)

You will also find informations about :

• Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) genetic maps and geographic area

• Eucalyptus (E. grandis, E. urophylla) genetic maps

• Oak (Quercus robur) genetic maps

• Norway spruce (Picea abies) genetic maps

• Some 2D gels

• Our softwares

The Proceedings of the WBB Conference (Wood, Breeding, Biotechnology and industrial expectations)

• Literature reviews :

  1. Molecular marker for linkage analysis in forest trees

  2. Mapping and QTL (in french)

  3. Conifer map review

• The abstracts of our recent publications

  • Christian Dubos Thesis (2001)          (pdf file 8.7 Mo)
  • Grégoire Le Provost Thesis (2003)   (pdf file 23 Mo)
  • David Chagné Thesis (2004)             (pdf file 10.7 Mo)
  • David Pot Thesis (2004)                    (pdf file 4.7 Mo)
  • Manuela Casasoli Thesis (2004)        (pdf file 3.5 Mo)

• Interesting genetic links

Our group is composed of 11 scientists, 3 technicians and on average 10 graduate students (Ph.D or M.S. students). The laboratory has a broad range of facilities in molecular genetics, tree breeding techniques, data analysis. It benefits also from the facilities offered by the local Forestry Experimental Unit that manages the experimental plantations (a total area of 300 ha). Besides the funding by INRA, research projects are supported by different grants from the Région Aquitaine, the French Ministries of Research and Agriculture and the European Union.