Sustainability of Climate and Pest Resilient Forests (RES-FOR).

The goal of the RES-FOR project is to integrate genomic, metabolomic and phenotypic data into selection models that will reduce the selection time and therefore the breeding cycles in lodgepole pine and white spruce tree improvement programs in Alberta. These new integrated models will help us produce healthy, productive, and resilient forests while informing policy, determining the economic value of genomic selection and identifying social/political factors influencing the use of these cutting-edge selection strategies.