Current status and trends in forest genomics

作者：Dulal Borthakur, Victor Busov, Hieu X. Cao, Qingzhang Du, Oliver Gailing, Fikret Işik, Jae‐Heung Ko, Chenghao Li, Quanzi Li, Shihui Niu, Guanzheng Qu, Giang T. H. Vu, Xiaoru Wang, Zhigang Wei, Lin Zhang, Hairong Wei · 发表于：Forestry Research · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.48130/fr-2022-0011 · 被引用次数：56 · 研究领域：CRISPR and Genetic Engineering、Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies、Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications

Forests are not only the most predominant of the Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, but are also the core supply for essential products for human use. However, global climate change and ongoing population explosion severely threatens the health of the forest ecosystem and aggravtes the deforestation and forest degradation. Forest genomics has great potential of increasing forest productivity and adaptation to the changing climate. In the last two decades, the field of forest genomics has advanced quickly owing to the advent of multiple high-throughput sequencing technologies, single cell RNA-seq, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-mediated genome editing, and spatial transcriptomes, as well as bioinformatics analysis technologies, which have led to the generation of multidimensional, multilayered, and spatiotemporal gene expression data. These technologies, together with basic technologies routinely used in plant biotechnology, enable us to tackle many important or unique issues in forest biology, and provide a panoramic view and an integrative elucidation of molecular regulatory mechanisms underlying phenotypic changes and variations. In this review, we recapitulated the advancement and current status of 12 research branches of forest genomics, and then provided future research directions and focuses for each area. Evidently, a shift from simple biotechnology-based research to advanced and integrative genomics research, and a setup for investigat...