Groover Andrew T
Institute of Forest Genetics, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 1100 West Chiles Road, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Trends Plant Sci. 2007 Jun;12(6):234-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2007.04.005. Epub 2007 May 10.
Forest biotechnology has been increasingly associated with wood production using plantation forestry, and has stressed applications that use pedigreed material and transgenic trees. Reasons for this emphasis include limitations of available technologies to conform to underlying genetic features of undomesticated forest tree populations. More recently, genomic technologies have rapidly begun to expand the scope of forest biotechnology. Genomic technologies are well suited to describe and make use of the abundant genetic variation present in undomesticated forest tree populations. Genomics thus enables new research and applications for conservation and management of natural forests, and is a primary technological driver for new research addressing the use of forests trees for carbon sequestration, biofuels feedstocks, and other 'green' applications.
森林生物技术越来越多地与利用人工造林进行木材生产相关联，并强调使用纯种材料和转基因树木的应用。这种强调的原因包括现有技术在符合未驯化森林树种群体潜在遗传特征方面的局限性。最近，基因组技术已迅速开始扩大森林生物技术的范围。基因组技术非常适合描述和利用未驯化森林树种群体中存在的丰富遗传变异。因此，基因组学为天然林的保护和管理带来了新的研究和应用，并且是解决将林木用于碳封存、生物燃料原料及其他“绿色”应用的新研究的主要技术驱动力。
