6th framework programme - fao

6th framework programmeResearch Infrastructures Action

Integrating activity

A working model network of tree improvement for competitive, multifunctional and sustainable

European forestry

"Structuring the European Research Area"Action: Support for Research Infrastructures

• The ability of Europe’s research teams to remain at the forefront of all fields of science and technology depends on their being supported by state-of-the-art infrastructures.

• The term “research infrastructures” refers to facilities and resources that provide essential services to the research community in both academic and/or industrial domains.

• The ambition of an Integrating Activity should be to induce a long-term integrating effect on the way research infrastructures operate, evolve and interact with similar infrastructures and with their users, thereby contributing to structure the European Research Area.

– Operators of similar infrastructures in a given class should for instance find it easier, through an Integrating Activity, to develop synergies and complementary capabilities in such a way as to offer an improved access to researchers.

– Likewise, infrastructure operators and users should be in a better position to tackle new or unexpected developments in their field, for instance in relation to state-of-the-art instrumentation, with a more co-ordinated approach.

– More generally, a closer interaction between a large number of scientists active in and around a number of infrastructures will facilitate cross-disciplinary fertilisations and a wider sharing of knowledge and related technologies across fields and between academia and industry.

– …….

• Long-term integrating effect …

…to structure the European Research area

to develop synergies and complementary capabilities

to tackle new or unexpected developments

to facilitate cross-disciplinary fertilisations

Context of European forest tree breeding

• Redundant activity/ R&D facilities• Small size : under-critical mass• Scattered facilities/ dispersed

expertise• Few integrated R&D chains Ex. Norway spruce breeding

programmes

Submitted to severe conjectural constraints in terms of research team critical mass, budget, etc

Faced to new R&D challenges well-beyond regional/national scopes

More reactivity is needed

• Environmental context • climate change• biodiversity issues

• Socio-economic context• New forest roles• New products• UE enlargement • Artificial forests

• New scientific and technical context

Increasing complexity…new problems… new challenges ...

Need to join forces !

?Inventory

Databases

Conditions for

access

Needs for research

Inventory

Conditions for

access

Inventory

State-of-the art

Common

protocols

Needs for

researchDatabases

Conditions for

access

Needs for research

Databases

State-of-the art

Synthesis

Dissemination

• 28 Institutes - 18 countries

• Duration : 48 months

Towards a more perennial structure

To create a scientific and technical platform for tree breeders and geneticists but also for a larger scientific community

- to raise scientific and technical expertise across Europe

- to initiate and support research projects

- to prepare cooperative breeding

Main objective

Treebreedex is not a research project

Inventory

Databases

Conditions for

access

Needs for research

Inventory

Conditions for

access

Inventory

State-of-the art

Common

protocols

Needs for

researchDatabases

Conditions for

access

Needs for research

Databases

State-of-the art

Synthesis

Dissemination

Have developed vast R&D infrastructuresover the last 50 yrs for most economical forest tree species (boreal/temperate/mediterranean)

Forest tree genetic material collections

Field experimental networks

Research facilities

Equipment / software

Methodology / know-how

Expertise

What are these infrastructures ?

Cooperative programmes

European Tree Breeding Coop

TREEBREEDEX goals

Joint R&D projects

Mobility projects

TREEBREEDEX

Partners’infrastructures

Networking tools

European Tree breedingresource centre

Identification of priority projects

Feasibility studies

Specific aims

• Create a reference space for forest tree breeders and geneticists– Staff directory– Literature– Experimental facilities– Scientific information / education

• Identify available experimental resources and organise accessibility– Inventories– Data-bases– Accessibility

• Exchange and make current scientific knowlegde accessible in a synthetic way– State-of-art synthesis, species breeding monographies– Seminars/workshops

• Share best scientific and technical practices– Reports– Workshops– Training

• Prepare future– Identify gaps and research needs– Prepare roadmaps for joint research / breeding

• Disseminate/communicate with people outside the consortium– Web-site short-notes/ forum on tree breeding activities– Inform about existence of infrastructures and its potential interest for other fields of research

• Create a reference space for professionals– Up-dated information on breeding progress– Consolidated information on FRM (catalogues, regulations, production scenarii, etc)

Expert group

Survey of tools, methodologies

State-of-art synthesis

What do we know ? What do we don’t know ?

Activitie

sTasks

DisseminationWeb-sitePapers

WorkshopsSeminars

Scientific & technical training

Access rules Research needs

Cost/benefit

Work organisation

Activity nr 3Provenance trialsBase populations

(provenances)

Activity nr 4Breeding

populations (+pollen, seed)

Activity nr 5Progeny/ clonal/

variety trials

Activity nr 6Forest

Reproductivematerial &regulations

ForestReproductivematerial web-

page

Provision of specifications for databases includingaccess rules,

Delivery of standardised information

Provision of linksto national data-

bases

Links with nationaldata-bases

(when exists)

Links to contact persons incharge of Institute genetic

data-bases (individual data)

Creation, maintenance, management, up-datingCreation of links with other data-basesProvision of guidelines on access rules

Monitoring of use and promotion

Activity nr 2 : web-site

Links withInstitutes web-sites

Experimentalfacilities andtools data-

base

Staff directoryWeb-page

‘Grey’Literaturedata-base

Genetic fieldexperimental trials

data-base

Forest treebreeding material

data-base

Circulation/ dissemination of information

Forums

Definition of scope and preparation of legal, scientific & technical basis of the European

Tree Breeding CentreAdaptation of

Consortium agreement

Ac 2.

Depositary

Reference Centre

Show-case

Reference Centre


(provenances)




variety trials

Activity nr 6Forest



page




bases


(when exists)








base




data-base


data-base


Forums


Tree Breeding Centre

Adaptation of Consortium agreement

Ac 2.

Depositary

Reference Centre

Show-case

Reference Centre


(provenances)




variety trials

Activity nr 6Forest



page




bases


(when exists)








base




data-base


data-base


Forums




Ac 2.

Depositary

Reference Centre


(provenances)




variety trials

Activity nr 6Forest



page




bases


(when exists)








base




data-base


data-base


Forums




Ac 2.

Depositary

Reference Centre

Show-case

Reference Centre

Forest tree breeders andgeneticists

Scientific community-Biologists (physiology, pathology, genetics, …)

-Wood technologists

-Agronomists

-etc

Forestry woodchain

-Seed orch.managers

-Seed dealers

-Nurserymen

-Forest managers

-Wood industrials

Regulations-National

-InternationalPublic


Forums


Tree Breeding CentreAdaptation of

Consortium agreement

Ac 2.

Depositary

Reference Centre

Show-case

Reference Centre


(provenances)




variety trials

Activity nr 6Forest



page




bases


(when exists)








base




data-base


data-base

Analysis of data-bases content

Forest genetic material meta-

database

Genetic experiments

meta-database

Inventory of what is available

Abandoned, fragile, endangered collections

Species diversity representation of breeding

populations

Joined conservation actions

Common core of breeding

populations

Sharable material

Joined breeding programmes

Suitable networks/ material

Common research interest

Joined research projects

Web-site connection

Access rules

Consortiumbreeders

Scientific community

Activity nr 2Creation of


Activity nr 3Geographical structure of

genetic diversity of species

Activity nr 4Structure, organisation and

long-term managementof forest breeding populations

Activity nr 5Optimisation of breeding

strategies and breeding tools

Activity nr 6Optimisation of improved

variety mass-production anddeployment in forests

Data-bases specifications,

surveys,inventories,

state-of-art synthesis,methodology standards

expert groups, workshops,

seminars, etc

Create, manage, up-date,disseminate

Web-siteForums

Data-basesReports

Guidelines

Provide information, Produce specifications,

Perform studies, Organise workshops, etc

Ac4.Joint management of breedingpopulations

• What is existing ? What is common, endangered ? How does BP represent species variability ?

• Accessibility ?

• Methodology to organise BP for long-term breeding

Ac5. Breedingmethods and

strategies

• Where do we stand at national levels ?

• Accessibility to infrastructures

• Share of expertise-methodology

• Standards

• Cost/benefit study of joined breeding

Ac6. Mass-production &

deployment ofvarieties

• Bottlenecks for mass-propagation/diffusion

• Share of expertise-methodology

• National regulations

• Variety transfer

Ac3. Delineation of breedingzones across Europe : principles – national

experience

• Genetic diversity

• Species plasticity & adaptability to changing conditions

?

Genetic diversity of species

Plasticity and potential of adaptation

Seed/ variety transfer

?

Delineation of breedingzones

Ac3. State-of-art synthesis

Seed transfer recommendation guidelines

Principles for delineation of breeding zones


Ac5. Efficiency of phenotypic selectionAc5. Early testing and indirect selectionAc5. Genetic relationships among traitsAc5. Interspecific/interpopulation hybridisationAc5. Optimising breeding strategies gain/diversity

Ac5. Species Breeding Monography

Ac5. Methodology/protocols

Ac5. Development of a tool for genetic evaluationusing new statistical methods

Ac5. Design of breeding strategies at the age of genomics

Common standards


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309 bp261 bp

1300 bp

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f13

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309 bp261 bp

1300 bp

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rbcL

Ac6. Review on mass-production of varieties

Ac6. Review on quality control procedures

Ac6. Best strategies for deployment and use of improvedFRM in relation…

Ac6. Quality and productivity potential of improved varieties

Workshops/seminars/trainingyear Activity Type Title Organiser Date Place remarks

yr1 2006 Ac.1.Plenary meeting Kick-off meeting P1 7-9 November 2006 France, Orléans all

yr1 2007 Ac5. training Methodological aspects of GIS for geospatial database building and exploitation P20 13-17 March 2007 Bucarest (Romania)

open to scientific and technical staff

yr1 2007 Ac2-4-5 workshop Data-bases : Specifications P1 16-18 April 2007Zaragoza (Spain) host partner 27

open to all partners but at min. 1 by partner

yr1 2007 Ac3. workshop Adaptive traits needed for breeding zone delineation P24 May 2007 Spain, Pontevedra

yr1 2007 Ac1.Plenary meeting 1st yr annual meeting P10 (21-25 ) M ay 2007 Finland all

yr2 2007 Ac2-4-5 workshop Data-base : Technical aspects P10 June 2007 Finland, Helsinkilimited to data-base developpers

yr2 2007 Ac6. conference Seed orchards conference P25 26-28 September 2007 Sweden, Umea open beyond consortiumyr2 2008 Ac3. workshop Plasticity and adaptation P1 & P23 (April-May) 2008 Spain, Madrid open beyond consortium

yr2 2008 Ac4. workshop ABS on Forest Genetic Resources P16 June 2008The Netherlands,

Wageningentogether with plenary meeting

yr2 2008 Ac1.Plenary meeting 2nd yr annual meeting P16 (2-6) June 2008 The Netherlands all

yr3 2008 Ac4. workshop Long-term management of breeding populations P1, P9 (July-September) 2008 France

yr3 2008 Ac5. training Field experimentation, data collection, field computers, etc. P9 sept.2008 Norway

designed for technical staff (already planned)

yr3 2008 Ac3. workshop Seed transfer: what do we know? P8 (July-Dec.) 2008 Germany, Dresden open beyond consortium

yr3 2009 Ac5. training Data management and analysisP7 & P21, P23,

P24, P27 2009 Germany, Göttingenyr3 2009 Ac5. training Around Pollination techniques P9 spring 2009 Denmark designed for technical staff

yr3 2009 Ac5. seminar Breeding of noble hardwood P12 May 2009 Italy

open beyond consortium, together with plenary meeting

yr3 2009 Ac1.Plenary meeting 3rd yr annual meeting P12

last week of May 2009 Italy all

yr4 2009 Ac3. seminar Genetic variability and adaptive potential of temperate and boreal forest tree species P20 June 2009 Romania, Brasov with Evoltree ?

yr4 2009 Ac5. workshopLayout of experiments and trials / assessment of traits/ reference standards P4 sept./oct.2009 Belgium

yr4 2009 Ac5. workshopData analysis : development of an integrated tool for genotypes evaluation P1 2009 France open beyond consortium

yr4 2009 Ac5. seminar

What do large genetic field experimental network across Europe bring to the scientific community? P8 sept/oct.2009 Poland open beyond consortium

yr4 2010 Ac1.Plenary meeting 4th yr annual meeting P11

last week of May 2010 Great-Britain all

yr4 2010 Ac1.

Plenary meeting and/or seminar Final meeting or seminar P1 France ? all

TREEBREEDEX MEETING SCHEDULE (tentative) December 5, 2006, revised Feb.28, 2007

Ac4.Joint management of breeding populations

Ac5. Breeding methods andstrategies

Ac6. Mass-production & deployment of varieties

Ac3. Delineation of breedingzones across Europe

Scientific – technical legal –financialfram

ework

Cost-benefit analysis

Property rights

Access rules

Joined breeding programmes

European breeding

cooperative

Focussed species

• Scots pine• Spruces (+ Sitka)• Larches• Douglas-fir

• Wild cherry• Ash• Sycomore• Poplars

+ Mediterranean firs and Pinus halepensis

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