Advances in Tree Molecular Markers

The application of molecular markers to related studies of forest trees has great merits to those fields that include construction of genetic linkage map,comparative genome mapping,QTL detecting, marker-assisted selection (MAS),phyolgeny as well as population variation and bio-diversity. Up to now,there were about 20 tree species which have been genetically mapped with molecular marker method,in which comparative studies of genomes have been carried out on several species. More than ten QTLs have been detected and MAS is ongoing on a few species. Molecular marker technology is also an important tool for estimating population genetic structure and diversity level,and identifying phylogenetic process and relatedness for a certain taxon of forest tree.