Proceedings of the IUFRO joint conference: Genetics of five-needle pines, rusts of forest trees, and Strobusphere; 2014 June 15–20; Fort Collins, CO

Abstract

Proceedings from the 2014 IUFRO Joint Conference: Genetics of five-needle pines, rusts of forest trees, and Strobusphere in Fort Collins, Colorado. The published proceedings include 91 papers pertaining to research conducted on the genetics and pathology of five-needle pines and rusts of forest trees. Topic areas are: ecology and climate change, common garden genetics, genomic resources, rust resistance, and rust biology, ecology, and management.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the IUFRO joint conference: Genetics of five-needle pines, rusts of forest trees, and Strobusphere; 2014 June 15–20; Fort Collins, CO

• Ecology and genetics of Pinus strobiformis
• Climate change alters distribution of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) with respect to land management status: Are there implications for adaptation?
• Genetic and ecological divergence in Pinus flexilis-Pinus strobiformis-Pinus ayacahuite species complex: Clues to understanding speciation in pines
• Southwestern white pine (Pinus strobiformis) regeneration ecology along disease and management gradients in the southwestern United States
• Limber pine stand conditions (Pinus flexilis) after white pine blister rust- and mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)-caused mortality in the Central and Southern Rocky Mountains
• Associations between complete resistance to white pine blister rust and abiotic stress tolerances in limber pine (Pinus flexilis)
• Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) growth release potential following overstay disturbance
• White pine blister rust alters facilitation interactions at treelike: Implications for treelike communities and response to climate change
• Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) direct seeding trials in the northern Rocky Mountains: The role of planting site and cache pilferage by rodents
• Pinus strobiformis gene conservation and genecology
• Genetic variation in stomate densities and needle traits in a rangewide sampling of whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis)
• Genetic variation in needle traits of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) seedling families: Within-population variation at Crater Lake National Park
• Adaptive variation among whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) populations from the interior northwestern United States in relation to climate
• Phenotypic selection on growth rhythm in whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) in low elevation common gardens
• Provenance variation in western white pine (Pinus monticola): The impact of white pine blister rust
• Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) field screening for blister rust resistance in British Columbia: Germination results
• Monitoring of blister rust resistance, pathogen virulence, and genetic adaptability of western white pine (Pinus monticola) at six sites in western Washington, USA
• The genetic architecture of local adaptation and the genomic exploration of rugged evolutionary landscapes within species of Pinus subgenus Strobus
• The efficacy of ex situ conservation of the Mexican and Central American white pines (Pinus ayacahuite and P
• Genetic relationship between reproductive morphology and growth characteristics of Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis)
• Population and evolutionary genetic studies of five-needle pines in Russia
• Using historical provenance test data to understand tree responses to a changing climate in sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana)
• Genetic variation in height and white pine blister rust resistance in sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) - 15-year field trial results of three six-parent half dialers from three breeding zones
• Population projections and resistance gene frequencies in the presence of white pine blister rust: A population genetic model for high elevation five-needle pines
• Genomics study of western white pine (Pinus monticola) genetic resistance against white pine blister rust
• Genomics, transcriptomics, and effectoromics of the poplar leaf rust fungus Melampsora larici-populina
• Ten-year results of a Comandra blister rust screening trial in the central interior of British Columbia
• Patterns of variation in blister rust resistance in sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana)
• Blister rust resistance in whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) - early results following artificial inoculation of seedlings from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, California, and British Columbia seed sources
• Blister rust inoculation trials for whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) in the Canadian Kootenay Region
• Variation in blister rust resistance and early height growth in three populations of southwestern white pine (Pinus strobiformis) and implications for management and conservation
• Persistence of major gene resistance in western white pine (Pinus monticola) in British Columbia
• Comparative look at rust infection and resistance in limber pine (Pinus flexilis) and Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (P. aristata) following artificial inoculation at three inoculum densities
• Southern Rockies rust resistance trial
• Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) partial resistance heritability study
• Patterns of resistance to Cronartium ribicola in Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata)
• Genetic resistance to Cronartium ribicola in limber pine (Pinus flexilis)
• The definitive guide for white pine blister rust resistance in white pine species of western North America (beta 2014.0 version) - a tree breeder’s perspective
• Genetic architecture of quantitative Melampsora larici-populina leaf rust resistance in poplars (Populus spp.)
• White pine blister rust hazard rating for 265 sites in southern Oregon, USA
• Genetic variability in Puccinia psidii as revealed in commercial plantations of Eucalyptus species
• Genetic and genotypic diversity of Puccinia psidii - the cause of guava/eucalypt/myrtle rust - and preliminary predictions of global areas at risk
• Cronartium rusts sporulate on a wide range of alternate hosts in northern Europe
• White pine blister rust confirmed on limber pine (Pinus flexilis) in Rocky Mountain National Park
• Efficacy of early pruning to reduce the incidence of white pine blister rust on sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana)
• Adaptation of poplar rust to the poplar varietal landscape
• Impact of white pine blister rust on resistant and previously immune cultivated Ribes and neighboring eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) in New Hampshire, USA
• Stem rust diseases of Pinus kesiya in Vietnam
• Barcoding the rust fungi of Germany
• The proactive strategy: Preparing the landscape for invasion by accelerating the evolution of resistance
• Cytological analyses reveal variations in nuclear content along the urediniosporic infection cycle of Hemileia vastatrix and other rust fungi
• Discovery of mycovirus community in the white pine blister rust ecosystems by rust transcriptome profiling
• Research on the rust hyperparasite Coregonladosporium tenuissimum: Status and prospects
• Eucalyptus grandis anomaly related to expression of defense genes

Citation

Schoettle, Anna W.; Sniezko, Richard A.; Kliejunas, John T., eds. 2018. Proceedings of the IUFRO joint conference: Genetics of five-needle pines, rusts of forest trees, and Strobusphere; 2014 June 15-20; Fort Collins, CO. Proc. RMRS-P-76. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 245 p.