Evolutionary history and phylogeography of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in Europe based on molecular markers

Tóth, Endre Gy.; Köbölkuti, Zoltán Attila; Pedryc, A.; Höhn, Mária

doi:10.1007/s11676-017-0393-8

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“…The Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) is the main component of forest ecosystems in Eurasia, and is a species of great ecological and economic importance. This species of pine is characterized by a wide geographical range and extremely high tolerance to various environmental conditions (Labra et al 2006;Pravdin 1969;Tóth et al 2017b). In the northern Tatras (in Poland) there are few populations of P. sylvestris, which are considered as the Holocene relics or even glacial relics (Staszkiewicz 1968(Staszkiewicz , 1993Jankovska and Pokorny 2008).…”

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Genetic resources of relict populations of Pinus sylvestris (L.) in Western Carpathians assessed by chloroplast microsatellites

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The relict character of the Scots pine populations from the Tatra Mts. (Western Carpathians) was formed on scarcely accessible, ecologically extreme habitats, in areas which were not under human activity. An exhaustive genetic analysis of the Scots pine populations from the refugial locations in the Tatra Mts. (Poland) had not yet been. In this study, we characterize the genetic variation and differentiation of the relict Scots pine populations from the Tatra Mts., to provide information on their genetic resources and the conservation implications. Eight paternally inherited chloroplast microsatellite loci were used to investigate the genetic structure of 4 relict populations, which were compared with the natural populations from the Baltic region (5 populations from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) and to a northern range from Russia (5 populations from the Kola Peninsula and Arkhangelsk Oblast). The four relict pine populations were characterized by a lower level of genetic variation when compared to the Baltic and northern populations, which was expressed in lower values of particular genetic parameters: numbers of alleles and haplotypes, haplotype genetic diversity, haplotype differentiation, and mean genetic distance between individuals in the population. Our results revealed a very high and significant genetic differentiation between all the analyzed populations, as well as between the three analyzed regions (PhiPT = 8%). Furthermore, the relict populations within a close geographic location showed higher differentiation (PhiPT = 5%) compared to the northern Russian and Baltic populations that were separated by tens and hundreds of kilometers. The relict populations of P. sylvestris from the Tatra Mts. deserve conservation efforts due to the fact that they are an important component if the species-poor Tatra forests.

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Genetic resources of relict populations of Pinus sylvestris (L.) in Western Carpathians assessed by chloroplast microsatellites

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“…Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris L.) is the most widespread European pine and is distributed from southern boreal habitats to Atlantic and central continental Europe (Richardson and Rundel 1998; Tóth et al 2017). In Scotland, the remnant Caledonian native pine woodland ( Pinus sylvestris L.) is a species-rich habitat harbouring a characteristic and specialised biota (Quine and Humphrey 2010; Bain 2013).…”

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Testing sampling effort and relative abundance descriptors of belowground ectomycorrhizal fungi in a UK planted scots pine woodland

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2017

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The native Caledonian pinewoods of Scotland, UK contain a unique and unexplored biodiversity of below-ground ectomycorrhizal fungi which may constitute a valuable source of microbial genetics resources for woodland restoration. In this study we test the sampling effort, taxa detection (ectomycorrhiza morpho-anatotyping) and relative abundance measurements (ectomycorrhizal root tip number vs. dry weight) of below-ground ectomycorrhizal fungal communities in a planted Pinus sylvestris Caledonian woodland. A total of 18 replicated sampling points were set up at differential distance along a 125 m transect, in a 50-yr-old, stem exclusion: thicket phase, Pinus sylvestris pinewood stand. A total of 11 ectomycorrhizal morpho-anatotypes were detected from 6689 ectomycorrhizal root tips counted and weighing 992.6 mg dry weight. The major ectomycorrhizal taxa were Meliniomyces bicolor and Cortinarius spp. accounting ~50% of total pine roots. A highly significant relationship (r2 = 0.16, p < 0.000) was found between Sørensen dissimilarity in soil cores and distance apart. In this study, the spatial arrangement of samples indicated that over short distances the dissimilarity was lower in contrast with the longer distances along the transect.

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“…Haploxylon Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra L.), a soft pine, which has one fibrovascular bundle and diploxylon Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), a hard pine, which has two, both belonging to subgenus Pinus but belonging to different subsections namely Strobus and Pinus and the latter tending to have harder timber and a larger amount of resin, have formerly been described as highly sensitive to climatic changes [5,6]. Scots pine, as a widely tolerant pioneer species, surviving close to the permafrost during the Pleistocene has adapted to different climates, being able to colonize even recently man-disturbed areas [7]. Evaluating genetic variation of the species with focus on the stress-adaptive genes by appropriate genetic tools could provide useful information for the conservation of native remnant populations as a biodiversity resource for the future.…”

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SNP marker development in Pinus sylvestris L. in stress-responsive genes characterized from Pinus cembra L. transcriptomes

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Massively parallel sequencing of cDNA is an efficient route for generating sequence collections that represent expressed genes under different environmental control. The analysis of their sequence helps in developing molecular markers, such as SNPs, which represent a useful tool in detecting adaptive signals in populations. In this study novel PCR markers, based on stress responsive genes, were designed from the transcriptome of the haploxylon Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra L.) and tested for SNPs in the diploxylon Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). 84 primers were tested on P. sylvestris DNA samples originating from three different types of habitat. After sequencing and BLAST search of the amplified products, parts of 19 different candidate genes were analysed by considering the polymorphic sites, insertions/deletions as well as synonymous and non-synonymous SNPs. In a total of 3735 sites no indels, eight synonymous and 11 non-synonymous SNPs were found. By providing de novo molecular markers developed in P. cembra and tested for transferability in Scots pine, our results give support for the use of de novo markers targeting conserved regions across different pines. The SNPs detected may have important applications in further studies of adaptive genetic variation, providing tools to study relevant genes important in the long-term adaptation of pine species.

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Evolutionary history and phylogeography of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in Europe based on molecular markers

Cited by 39 publications

References 97 publications

Genetic resources of relict populations of Pinus sylvestris (L.) in Western Carpathians assessed by chloroplast microsatellites

Genetic resources of relict populations of Pinus sylvestris (L.) in Western Carpathians assessed by chloroplast microsatellites

Testing sampling effort and relative abundance descriptors of belowground ectomycorrhizal fungi in a UK planted scots pine woodland

SNP marker development in Pinus sylvestris L. in stress-responsive genes characterized from Pinus cembra L. transcriptomes

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