Media
Genome Atlantic – FastTRAC II: Launching informative project videos on March 21st, International Day of Forests
Genome Canada – FastTRAC II: Fast tests for rating and amelioration of conifers
Genome Canada – New genomics investments drive innovation in Canadian forestry, agriculture and healthcare
Génome Québec – FastTRAC II: Fast tests for rating and amelioration of conifers
Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique de l’Université Laval – Un important programme de partenariat en génomique pour mieux adapter les forêts aux changements climatiques
Université Laval News – Accélérer la sélection de variétés d’épinettes
Publications
2026
Desaulniers, E., C. Depardieu, S. Nadeau, J.-P. Laverdière, M. Perron, F. Ogut, P. Rozenberg, J. Bousquet & P. Lenz. 2026. Automated analysis of intra-annual density fluctuations to uncover climate-sensitive and genetically variable wood traits. Science of the Total Environment 1007: 181087 (12p.).
2025
Gérardi, S., F. Gagnon, N. Pavy, J. Laroche, S. Nadeau, B. Boyle, A. Soro, S. Millican, S. Thompson, A. Thomson, M. Perron, S. Bockstette, J. Beaulieu, P. Lenz & J. Bousquet (2025). Development and validation of an exome-wide SNP genotyping array for GWAS, genomic prediction and assessment of introgressive hybridization between black and red spruces, and transferability to white and Norway spruces. bioRxiv Biology Archive (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) vol. 2025: 688480 (31p.).
Reed-Métayer, E., C. Depardieu, P. Lenz, J. Bousquet & M. Perron. 2025. Spruce hybrids show superior lifespan growth but intermediate response to climate stress, as compared to their ecologically divergent parental species. Forest Ecology and Management 581: 122550 (19p.).
2024
Beaulieu, J., P. Lenz, J.-P. Laverdière, S. Nadeau & J. Bousquet. 2024. A meta-analysis on the effects of marker coverage, status number, and size of training set on predictive accuracy and heritability estimates from genomic selection in tree breeding. Tree Genetics and Genomes 20: 22 (14p.).
2023
Nadeau, S., J. Beaulieu, S.A. Gezan, M. Perron, J. Bousquet & P.R.N. Lenz. 2023. Increasing genomic prediction accuracy for unphenotyped fullsib families by modeling additive and dominance effects with large datasets in white spruce. Frontiers in Plant Science 14: 1137834 (24p).
2022
Beaulieu, J., P. Lenz & J. Bousquet. 2022. Metadata analysis indicates biased estimation of genetic parameters and gains using pedigree information instead of genomic-based approaches in tree breeding. Scientific Reports 12: 3933 (10p.).