5 Fagaceae Trees

Authors

Antoine Kremer, UMR Biodiversité Gènes & Communautés, INRA
Manuela Casasoli, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università “La Sapienza”, Piazza A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Teresa Barreneche, Unité de Recherche sur les Espèces Fruitières et la Vigne, INRA, 71 Avenue Edouard Bourlaux, 33883 Villenave d’Ornon, France
Catherine Bodénès, UMR Biodiversité Gènes & Communautés, INRA
Paul Sisco, The American Chestnut Foundation, One Oak Plaza, Suite 308 Asheville, NC 28801, USA
Thomas Kubisiak, Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, USDA-Forest Service, 23332 Highway 67, Saucier, MS 39574-9344, USA
Marta Scalfi, Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, 43100 Parma, Italy
Stefano Leonardi, Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, 43100 Parma, Italy
Erica Bakker, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, 5801 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Joukje Buiteveld, AlterraWageningen UR, Centre for Ecosystem Studies, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AAWageningen, The Netherlands
Jeanne Romero-Severson, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Kathiravetpillai Arumuganathan, Flow Cytometry and Imaging Core Laboratory, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, 1201 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Jeremy Derory, UMR Biodiversité Gènes & Communautés, INRA
Caroline Scotti-Saintagne, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, INRA, Campus agronomique BP 709, Avenue de France, 97387 Kourou, French Guyana
Guy Roussel, UMR Biodiversité Gènes & Communautés, INRA
Maria Evangelista Bertocchi, UMR Biodiversité Gènes & Communautés, INRA
Christian Lexer, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
Ilga Porth, Austrian Research Centre, 2444 Seibersdorf, Austria
Fred Hebard, The American Chestnut Foundation Research Farms, 14005 Glenbrook Avenue, Meadowview, VA 24361, USA
Catherine Clark, Department of Forestry, North Carolina State University, Box 8008, Raleigh, NC 27695-8008, USA
John Carlson, The School of Forest Resources and Huck Institutes for Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 323 Forest Resources Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Christophe Plomion, UMR Biodiversité Gènes & Communautés, INRA
Hans-Peter Koelewijn, AlterraWageningen UR, Centre for Ecosystem Studies, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AAWageningen, The Netherlands
Fiorella Villani, Istituto per l’Agroselvicoltura, CNR, V.le G. Marconi, 2 - 05010, Porano, Italy

Date of this Version

2007

Comments

Published in Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants, Volume 7.

Abstract

Worldwide, there are more than 1,000 species belonging to the Fagaceae. All Fagaceae species are woody plants and are spread throughout the northern hemisphere, from the tropical to the boreal regions. The family comprises seven genera (Govaerts and Frodin 1998), and the number of species is extremely variable among genera: Castanea (12), Castanopsis (100 to 200), Chrysolepis (2), Fagus (11), Lithocarpus (300), Quercus (450 to 600), Trigonobalanus (3).Oaks (Quercus), chestnuts (Castanea), and beeches (Fagus) are widely used in forestry for wood products over the three continents (Asia, Europe, and America) and are important economic species. Consequently, they have received more attention in forest genetic research than other genera. In addition to their cultivation in forestry, chestnuts are also used for their fruit production and have been partially domesticated for that purpose. Castanopsis and Lithocarpus are important ecological components of the Asian flora and have recently been investigated for their biological diversity (Cannon and Manos 2003). The remaining genera comprise only a very few species and for the time being have been studied mainly in botany and taxonomy.