Optimizing the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe (GenTree)

Description:

GenTree is an EU funded project with a consortium of 22 public and private research organizations and enterprises. The project goal is to provide the European forestry sector with better knowledge, methods and tools for optimising the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe in the context of climate change and continuously evolving demands for forest products and services.

The main activities are related to:

• design innovative strategies for dynamic conservation of forest genetic resources in European forests
• broaden the range of forest genetic resources used by European breeding programmes
• prepare new forest management scenarios and policy frameworks fully integrating genetic conservation and breeding aspects, to adapt forests and forestry to changing environmental conditions and societal demands.

GenTree focuses on economically and ecologically important tree species in Europe, growing in a wide range of habitats and covering different societal uses and values. Project outcomes consist in changes in current practices and behaviors of stakeholders, as a result of the project activities and dissemination of outputs.

Project information

Lead

Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), France

Partners

Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain;

Uppsala Universitet (UU), Sweden;

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece;

European Forest Institute (EFI), Finland;

Bioversity International, Italy;

Philipps-Universität Marburg (PUM), Germany;

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy;

Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Spain;

University of Oulu (UOULU), Finland;

IGA Technology Services (IGATS), Italy;

Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Norway;

Forestry Research Institute of Sweden (Skogforsk), Sweden;

Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute (THÜNEN), Germany;

Bavarian Office for Forest Seeding and Planting (ASP), Germany;

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Great Britain;

Aleksandras Stulginskis University (ASU), Lithuania;

INRA Transfert (IT), France;

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Switzerland;

Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia;

Radiata Pine Breeding Co Ltd (RPBC), New Zealand;

LIECO Gmbh & Co KGH (LIECO), Austria

Source of funding

SFS-07b-2015 - Management and sustainable use of genetic resources