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Landscape genetic structure of chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) in Spain

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The current need for forest conservation and management has driven a rapid expansion of landscape genetics approach. This discipline combines tools from molecular genetics, landscape ecology and spatial statistics and is decisive for improving not only ecological knowledge but also for properly managing population genetic resources. This approach could be appropriate to sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.), a multipurpose species of great economic importance in the Mediterranean basin and a species considered to be a good model of integration between natural and human-driven distribution of diversity. Sixteen chestnut populations, covering the distribution range of the species in Spain, were analysed using seven microsatellite markers. Results revealed a high level of genetic diversity in Spanish chestnut populations, which in part followed a geographical pattern, although distribution was not homogeneous. Likewise, areas particularly rich in diversity were detected, facilitating the development of a hypothesis about the history of chestnut in Spain. In conclusion, these results provide valuable baseline data for more in-depth studies on chestnut landscape genetics that can contribute to its conservation.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by grants AGL2009-07931 and AGL2010-15147 from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) from the European Union. The first author is grateful to the Alfonso Martin Escudero Foundation for a postdoctoral fellowship and the hosting institute of the fellowship, Agroenvironmental and Forest Biology Institute from the Italian National Research Council.

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  1. Departamento de Genética, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos y de Montes, Edificio Gregor Mendel, Campus de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, ES-14071, Córdoba, Spain

    M. Angela Martín, Juan B. Alvarez & Luis M. Martín

  2. Istituto di Biologia Agroambientale e Forestale (IBAF), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Viale Marconi, 2, 05010, Porano, Terni, Italy

    Claudia Mattioni, Marcello Cherubini & Fiorella Villani

  3. Departamento de Ingeniería Forestal, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos y de Montes, Edificio Leonardo Da Vinci, Universidad de Córdoba, ES-14071, Córdoba, Spain

    Juan R. Molina & Miguel A. Herrera

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Pairwise F ST estimates among all populations of chestnut included in this study. Significant pairwise comparisons (P < 0.05) are included in bold (DOC 56 kb)

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Martín, M.A., Mattioni, C., Molina, J.R. et al. Landscape genetic structure of chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) in Spain. Tree Genetics & Genomes 8, 127–136 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11295-011-0427-x

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