Development and use of Genomic Resources to Study Oak Tree Adaptation

Due to their biological dominance, their commercial and ecological importance worldwide, an international network was launched recently to develop a coordinated strategy to  sequence several Fagaceae genomes. Among others, these genomic
resources will allow to discover which genes are involved in the adaptation of these organisms to their environments and to study their adaptive potential under current and future climate changes. In Europe, genomic resources are being  developed for sessile, pedunculate, and cork oaks, sweet chestnut  and common beech. With respect to oak, several research units of INRA and the GENOSCOPE join their efforts with three objectives: i/  obtain a reference sequence for the pedunculate oak genome, ii/  annotate the genome and make the data and results available to the scientific community through inter-operable databases, and  iii/  identify genes that matter for tree adaptation through the analysis of adaptive divergence at the transcriptome and genome-wide levels. This poster will recap on that initiative, review major findings and next step to be achieved.