Abies pinsapo and Abies marocana

Circum-Mediterranean firs are considered among the most drought-sensitive species to climate change. Abies pinsapo Boiss. and Abies marocana Trab., are relict tree species endemic from south Spain and north Morocco, respectively. Both species are included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as endangered species with climate change as one of the main threats to their conservation. Understanding the genetic basis of the adaptive capacity of trees to climate modifications is mandatory to define conservation measures, thus potentially preventing their extinction. The new techniques based on NGS, such as ddRADseq, allow us to generate genomic information and to describe a high amount of molecular markers, namely SNPs. These SNPs are very useful to perform studies which shed light on the response to climate change.