Éditeur(s) : Inter-Research
Résumé : The widespread use of Agent Orange (a mixture of phenoxyl herbicides) over Southern Vietnam by US Forces led to the decimation of mangrove forests in the Mekong Delta. Mangrove trees Avicennia alba were sampled across the Mekong Delta; their age was assessed using models based on internode growth and samples were genotyped for 6 microsatellite loci. The evolution of genetic diversity over time elapsed since local extinction was reconstructed and compared with the genetic diversity of an unaffected population from Thailand, The results show that genetic diversity of the A. alba population is still increasing in the Mekong Delta 3 decades after the end of the Vietnam War, but is reaching an asymptotic level that is comparable to the adjacent non-affected population of Thailand. This might be a sign of genetic recovery, but may also reveal a limitation, either of genetic enrichment due to current predominance of auto-recruitment or of demographic increase due to intraspecific competition in this pioneer species. In any case, these results, although encouraging, demonstrate that genetic recovery after complete or almost complete population depletion continues over a longer time-scale than apparent demographic recovery.
Marine Ecology Progress Series (0171-8630) (Inter-Research), 2009-09 , Vol. 390 , P. 129-135

Droits : Inter-Research 2009
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-6898.pdf
DOI:10.3354/meps08183
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/6898/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Public Library of Science
Résumé : Key message Molecular markers were used for paternity recovery in a maritime pine (Pinus pinasterAit.) polycross trial, facilitating forward selection. Different breeding strategies for seed orchard establishment were evaluated by comparing genetic gains and diversity. This work opens up new perspectives in maritime pine breeding.Context Polycross mating designs are widely used in forest tree breeding to evaluate parental breeding values for backward selection. Alternatively, polycross progeny trials may be used to select the best trees on the basis of individual breeding values and molecular pedigree analysis.Aims This study aimed to test such a forward selection strategy for the maritime pine breeding program.Methods In a maritime pine polycross trial, progeny with higher breeding values for growth and stem straightness was first preselected with or without relatedness constraints. After paternity recovery, the preselected trees were ranked on the basis of their breeding values, estimated from the recovered full pedigree. Finally, the best candidates were selected with three different strategies (forward, backward, mixed) and three levels of coancestry constraints to establish a virtual clonal seed orchard.Results Complete pedigrees were successfully recovered for most of the preselected trees. There was no major difference in expected genetic gains between the two preselection strategies which differed for relatedness constraints. Genetic gains were slightly higher for forward selection than for classical backward selection.Conclusion This seminal study opens up new perspectives for using forward selection within the French maritime pine breeding program.
ISSN: 1932-6203

hal-01601804
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01601804
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0049990
PRODINRA : 391860