Mengmeng Lu

The paper investigates the genetic architecture of climate-adaptive traits in Douglas-fir, finding polygenic and redundant patterns that complicate genomic predictions of maladaptation to future climates.

This study identifies genetic factors underlying resistance to Dothistroma septosporum in lodgepole pine, jack pine, and their hybrids using genome-wide association analysis.

The paper uses pool-seq and exome capture to identify SNPs in two conifer species, showing high correlation between pooled and individual sequencing with improved accuracy using haploid tissue.