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Genetic parameters of growth, straightness and wood chemistry traits in Pinus pinaster

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Introduction

Tree breeding is giving an increasing attention to wood properties in order to better fit the requirements of the saw, board, pulp and paper industries. In particular, it has been reported that lignin and cellulose content display moderate to high heritabilities making them prime candidates for genetic improvement of wood chemistry. Moreover, these traits have been shown to be negatively correlated at both phenotypic and genetic levels. However, they have generally been evaluated against a narrow genetic background, and little is known about their correlations with mandatory selection criteria such as growth and straightness.

Materials and methods

In this study, we first investigated the performance of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy combined with a non-destructive sampling method to assess chemical properties of wood in maritime pine. We afterwards estimated genetic parameters of growth, stem form and wood chemistry traits across a large genetic background in a progeny trial and clonally replicated progenies.

Results

Our results showed that removal of extractives prior to NIR spectra acquisition is highly recommended for achieving high accuracy in NIRS-PLSR prediction for wood chemistry traits in maritime pine.

We further observed moderate heritabilities (0.15–0.55) for the studied traits. Wood chemistry traits were genetically inter-correlated (e.g., negatively between lignin and cellulose), whereas correlations with growth were not significant, indicating that growth and chemical properties could be improved independently.

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Acknowledgements

We thank INRA Experimental Unit UE0570 and Thomas Sanchez from FCBA for collecting the samples. We also thank Pierre Gardère, Maëlys Kerdraon and Guillaume Kubinski for wood samples processing, and Laurent Bouffier, Pauline Garnier-Géré, Annie Raffin, Pierre Alazard, Barry Gardiner and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on the manuscript and/or analyses. This research was supported by grants from Agence Nationale de la Recherche Genoplante (GenoQB, GNP05013C), from the European Union (GEMINI, QLRT-1999-00942) and from the Aquitaine Region. Phenotyping of the half-sib trial was performed at the GenoBois Facility of Pierroton (Cestas). C. Lepoittevin was supported by CIFRE contract between FCBA and INRA. F. Hubert was funded by the EVOLTREE Network of Excellence (http://www.evoltree.org).

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  1. INRA, UMR1202 BIOGECO, 33612, Cestas, France

    Camille Lepoittevin, François Hubert & Christophe Plomion

  2. UMR1202 BIOGECO, Université de Bordeaux, 33400, Talence, France

    Camille Lepoittevin, François Hubert & Christophe Plomion

  3. FCBA, Laboratoire de Biotechnologies, 77370, Nangis, France

    Camille Lepoittevin & Luc Harvengt

  4. FCBA, Station Sud-Ouest, 33480, Moulis-en-Médoc, France

    Jean-Pierre Rousseau & François Besson

  5. FCBA InTechFibres, Pôle Nouveaux Matériaux, Domaine Universitaire, 38044, Grenoble, France

    Audrey Guillemin & Denilson da Silva Perez

  6. INRA, UE0570 Domaine Expérimental de l’Hermitage, 33612, Cestas, France

    Christophe Gauvrit

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Lepoittevin, C., Rousseau, JP., Guillemin, A. et al. Genetic parameters of growth, straightness and wood chemistry traits in Pinus pinaster . Annals of Forest Science 68, 873–884 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-011-0084-0

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