Média
Génome Atlantic: Lancement de vidéos informatives sur le projet FastTRAC II le 21 mars, journée internationale des forêts
Génome Canada – FastTRAC II : Tests rapides pour l’évaluation et l’amélioration des conifères
Génome Canada – De nouveaux investissements en génomique stimulent l’innovation dans la foresterie, l’agriculture et les soins de santé au Canada
Génome Québec – FastTRAC II : Tests rapides pour l’évaluation et l’amélioration des conifères
Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique, Université Laval – Un important programme de partenariat en génomique pour mieux adapter les forêts aux changements climatiques
Nouvelles Université Laval – 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.).
Soro, E., P. Lenz, J. Beaulieu, J.-P. Laverdière, S. Nadeau, F. Gagnon, F. Ogut, Wu HX, M. Perron & J. Bousquet. 2026. Minimum marker densities for accurate genomic predictions and heritability estimates in three major North American and European spruce species. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-026-00836-7
Quevillon, V., S. Gérardi, P. Lenz & J. Bousquet. 2026. Ecogenomics of transcontinental black spruce: identification of climate adaptation genes across the Canadian boreal landscape. bioRxiv Biology Archive (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) vol. 2026: 714629 (44p.).
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.).
Marchand, W., C. Depardieu, E.M. Campbell. J. Bousquet & M.P. Girardin. 2025. Long-term temporal divergence in post-drought resilience decline between deciduous and evergreen tree species. Global Change Biology 31(7): e70330 (24p.).
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.).
Depardieu, C., P. Lenz, J. Marion, S. Nadeau, C. Bégin, W. Marchand, M.P. Girardin, A. Gessler, K. Treydte, J. Bousquet, M.M. Savard & N. Isabel. 2024. Contrasting physiological strategies explain heterogeneous responses to severe drought conditions within local populations of a widespread conifer. Science of the Total Environment 923: 171174 (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.).