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© Bernd Degen
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FG Forest Genetics

Project

Large scale project on genetic timber verification

Lead Institute FG Institute of Forest Genetics
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Large scale project on genetic timber verification

New large project on the development of genetic reference data to identify timber origin

Background and Objective

Since 1st October 2014 the Institute is coordinating the new “Large scale project on genetic timber verification (LargeScale Project).” The objective of the project is to develop genetic reference data to assign the country of origin for seven tree species in Africa and for seven tree species in Latin America. Further the projects supports with additional equipment and by training the genetic lab at the „Forest Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG)“ in Kumasi and the lab of the „Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP)“ in Iquitos Peru. The project has a duration of 39 months and a total budget of 3.6 million Euros. It is financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) in frame of the programm “International sustuianable forestry”. Partners from eight African countries and four Latin American countries participate at the project (map).

Approach

In the next 40 months we want to develop genetic reference data to check the country of origin for timber of 20 high priority species in Africa (10 species) and Latin America (10 species). This will be realised in frame of bilateral projects among the Thünen-Institut and institutions in 11 timber producing countries. A preference will be given to institutes to which already co-operation projects exist. As in other projects the technology transfer and the capacity building will be an important element of these bi-lateral co-operation projects. The goal is to support with equipment and training five reference labs (three in Africa, two in Latin America).

This work covers part of the regions and tree species identified as priority by the Global Timber Tracking Network (GTTN). The genetic reference data will be implemented into the data base of the GTTN. For another set of priority species and regions a complementary project is in preparation co-ordinated by Andrew Lowe (University of Adelaide) searching for financial support from Australia and international donors.

Structure / workpackages

The Thünen –Institute will be responsible for the genetic screening and the co-ordination of the overall initiatives as a framework of bi-lateral projects. The framework has 4 different work packages (WP):

  • WP Sampling
  • WP Genetic Screening
  • WP Technology Transfer
  • WP Co-ordination

Thünen-Contact

Dr. habil. Bernd Degen

Mobile
+49 4102 696 101
Telephone
+49 4102 696 101
bernd.degen@thuenen.de
FG Institute of Forest Genetics

Involved Thünen-Partners

Involved external Thünen-Partners

  • Eurofins Genomics GmbH
    (Ebersberg, Deutschland)
  • Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (INRAE)
    (Paris, Toulouse, Montpellier, Avignon, Ivry-sur-Seine, Clermont-Ferrand, Rennes, Thiverval-Grignon, Dijon, Orleans, Bordeaux, Pierroton, Frankreich)
  • Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG)
    (Kumasi, Ghana)
  • Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana
    (Iquitos, Peru)
  • Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) XXXXX
    (Edinburgh, Swindon, Großbritannien (inkl. Nordirland))
  • University of Adelaide
    (Adelaide, Australien)
  • Nature+
    (Walhain-St-Paul, Belgien)
  • National Institute of Agricultural Research of Uruguay
    (Montevideo, Uruguay)

Funding Body

  • Federal Ministry of Food und Agriculture (BMEL)
    (national, öffentlich)

Duration

10.2014 - 12.2019

More Information

Project status: finished

Final report

Detailed final report of the LargeScale project (German with English summary): PDF-file

Publications

  1. 0

    Bouka GUD, Doumenge C, Ekue MRM, Duminil J, Florence J, Degen B, Loumeto JJ, McKey D, Hardy OJ (2024) Genetic differentiation in Khaya Ivorensis A. Chev., a threaten tree of evergreen African rainforests. Tree Genetics Genomes 20(6):41, DOI:10.1007/s11295-024-01676-4

  2. 1

    Capo LFM, Degen B, Blanc-Jolivet C, Tysklind N, Cavers S, Mader M, Meyer-Sand BRV, Paredes-Villanueva K, Honorio Coronado EN, Garcia-Davila CR, Troispoux V, Delcamp A, Sebbenn AM (2024) Timber tracking of Jacaranda copaia from the Amazon Forest using DNA fingerprinting. Forests 15(8):1478, DOI:10.3390/f15081478

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn068996.pdf

  3. 2

    Carvalho C, de Lima HC, Lemes MR, Zartman CE, van den Berg C, Garcia-Davila CR, Honorio Coronado EN, Mader M, Paredes-Villanueva K, Tysklind N, Cardoso D (2023) A dated phylogeny of the Neotropical Dipterygeae clade reveals 30 million years of winged papilionate floral conservatism in the otherwise florally labile early-branching papilionoid legumes. Bot J Linn Soc 202(4):449-475, DOI:10.1093/botlinnean/boad003

  4. 3

    Bouka GUD, Doumenge C, Ekue MRM, Dainou K, Florence J, Degen B, Loumeto JJ, McKey DB, Hardy OJ (2022) Khaya revisited: Genetic markers and morphological analysis reveal six species in the widespread taxon K. anthotheca. Taxon 71(4):814-832, DOI:10.1002/tax.12720

  5. 4

    Blanc-Jolivet C, Mader M, Bouda ZH-N, Massot M, Dainou K, Yene G, Opuni-Frimpong E, Degen B (2021) Development of new SNP and INDEL loci for the valuable African timber species Lophira alata. Conserv Genet Resources 13:85-87, DOI:10.1007/s12686-020-01173-5

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn063410.pdf

  6. 5

    Pakull B, Schindler L, Mader M, Kersten B, Blanc-Jolivet C, Paulini M, Lemes MR, Ward S, Navarro CM, Cavers S, Sebbenn AM, Dio Odi, Guichoux E, Degen B (2020) Development of nuclear SNP markers for Mahogany (Swietenia spp.). Conserv Genet Resources 12:585-587, DOI:10.1007/s12686-020-01162-8

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn063132.pdf

  7. 6

    Blanc-Jolivet C, Mader M, Bouda ZH-N, Guichoux E, Yene G, Opuni-Frimpong E, Degen B (2020) Development of SNP markers for the African timber species Nauclea diderrichii. Conserv Genet Resources 12:357-359, DOI:10.1007/s12686-019-01115-w

  8. 7

    Paredes-Villanueva K, Blanc-Jolivet C, Mader M, Honorio Coronado EN, Garcia-Davila CR, Sebbenn AM, Meyer-Sand BRV, Caron H, Tysklind N, Cavers S, Degen B (2020) Nuclear and plastid SNP markers for tracing Cedrela timber in the tropics. Conserv Genet Resources 12:239-244, DOI:10.1007/s12686-019-01110-1

  9. 8

    Finch KN, Cronn R, Ayala Richter MC, Blanc-Jolivet C, Correa Guerrero MC, De Stefano Beltrán L, Garcia-Davila CR, Honorio Coronado EN, Palacios-Ramos S, Paredes-Villanueva K, Jones FA (2020) Predicting the geographic origin of Spanish Cedar (Cedrela odorata L.) based on DNA variation. Conserv Genet 21:625-639, DOI:10.1007/s10592-020-01282-6

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn063412.pdf

  10. 9

    Honorio Coronado EN, Blanc-Jolivet C, Mader M, Garcia-Davila CR, Aldana Gomero D, del Castillo Torres D, Flores Llampazo G, Hidalgo Pizango G, Sebbenn AM, Meyer-Sand BRV, Paredes-Villanueva K, Tysklind N, Troispoux V, Massot M, Carvalho C, de Lima HC, Cardoso D, Degen B (2020) SNP markers as a successful molecular tool for assessing species identity and geographic origin of trees in the economically important South American legume genus Dipteryx. J Heredity 111(4):346-356, DOI:10.1093/jhered/esaa011

  11. 10

    Tysklind N, Blanc-Jolivet C, Mader M, Meyer-Sand BRV, Paredes-Villanueva K, Honorio Coronado EN, Garcia-Davila CR, Sebbenn AM, Caron H, Troispoux V, Guichoux E, Degen B (2019) Development of nuclear and plastid SNP and INDEL markers for population genetic studies and timber traceability of Carapa species. Conserv Genet Resources 11(3):337-339, DOI:10.1007/s12686-019-01090-2

  12. 11

    Honorio Coronado EN, Blanc-Jolivet C, Mader M, Garcia-Davila CR, Sebbenn AM, Meyer-Sand BRV, Paredes-Villanueva K, Tysklind N, Troispoux V, Massot M, Degen B (2019) Development of nuclear and plastid SNP markers for genetic studies of Dipteryx tree species in Amazonia. Conserv Genet Resources 11(3):333-336, DOI:10.1007/s12686-019-01081-3

  13. 12

    Pakull B, Ekue MRM, Bouka Dipelet UG, Doumenge C, McKey DB, Loumeto JJ, Opuni-Frimpong E, Yorou SN, Nacoulma BMY, Guelly KA, Ramamonjisoa L, Thomas D, Guichoux E, Loo J, Degen B (2019) Genetic diversity and differentiation among the species of African mahogany (Khaya spp.) based on a large SNP array. Conserv Genet(20):1035-1044, DOI:10.1007/s10592-019-01191-3

  14. 13

    Chaves CL, Blanc-Jolivet C, Sebbenn AM, Mader M, Meyer-Sand BRV, Paredes-Villanueva K, Honorio Coronado EN, Garcia-Davila CR, Tysklind N, Troispoux V, Massot M, Degen B (2019) Nuclear and chloroplastic SNP markers for genetic studies of timber origin for Hymenaea trees. Conserv Genet Resources 11(3):329-331, DOI:10.1007/s12686-018-1077-1

  15. 14

    Sebbenn AM, Blanc-Jolivet C, Mader M, Meyer-Sand BRV, Paredes-Villanueva K, Honorio Coronado EN, Garcia-Davila CR, Tysklind N, Troispoux V, Delcamp A, Degen B (2019) Nuclear and plastidial SNP and INDEL markers for genetic tracking studies of Jacaranda copaia. Conserv Genet Resources 11(3):341-343, DOI:10.1007/s12686-019-01097-9

  16. 15

    Chaves CL, Degen B, Pakull B, Mader M, Honorio E, Ruas P, Tysklind N, Sebbenn AM (2018) Assessing the ability of chloroplast and nuclear DNA gene markers to verify the geographic origin of Jatoba (Hymenaea courbaril L.) timber. J Heredity 109(5):543-552, DOI:10.1093/jhered/esy017

  17. 16

    Mader M, Pakull B, Blanc-Jolivet C, Paulini-Drewes M, Bouda ZH-N, Degen B, Small I, Kersten B (2018) Complete chloroplast genome sequences of four Meliaceae species and comparative analyses. Int J Mol Sci 19(3):701, DOI:10.3390/ijms19030701

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn059780.pdf

  18. 17

    Meyer-Sand BRV, Blanc-Jolivet C, Mader M, Paredes-Villanueva K, Tysklind N, Sebbenn AM, Guichoux E, Degen B (2018) Development of a set of SNP markers for population genetics studies of Ipe (Handroanthus sp.), a valuable tree genus from Latin America. Conserv Genet Resources 10(4):779-781, DOI:10.1007/s12686-017-0928-5

  19. 18

    Blanc-Jolivet C, Kersten B, Bourland N, Guichoux E, Delcamp A, Doucet J-L, Degen B (2018) Development of nuclear SNP markers for the timber tracking of the African tree species Sapelli, Entandrophragma cylindricum. Conserv Genet Resources 10(3):539-541, DOI:10.1007/s12686-017-0872-4

  20. 19

    Degen B, Blanc-Jolivet C, Stierand K, Gillet E (2017) A nearest neighbour approach by genetic distance to the assignment of individual trees to geographic origin. Forensic Sci Int Genetics 27:132-141, DOI:10.1016/j.fsigen.2016.12.011

  21. 20

    Blanc-Jolivet C, Kersten B, Dainou K, Hardy OJ, Guichoux E, Delcamp A, Degen B (2017) Development of nuclear SNP markers for genetic tracking for Iroko, Milicia excelsa and Milicia regia. Conserv Genet Resources 9(4):531-533, DOI:10.1007/s12686-017-0716-2

  22. 21

    Dainou K, Flot J-F, Degen B, Blanc-Jolivet C, Doucet J-L, Lassois L, Hardy OJ (2017) DNA taxonomy in the timber genus Milicia: evidence of unidirectional introgression in the West African contact zone. Tree Genetics Genomes 13(90):in Press, DOI:10.1007/s11295-017-1174-4

  23. 22

    Pakull B, Mader M, Kersten B, Ekue MRM, Bouka Dipelet UG, Paulini M, Bouda ZH-N, Degen B (2016) Development of nuclear, chloroplast and mitochondrial SNP markers for Khaya sp.. Conserv Genet Resources 8(3):293-297, DOI:10.1007/s12686-016-0557-4

  24. 23

    Dormontt EE, Boner M, Braun B, Breulmann G, Degen B, Espinoza E, Gardner S, Guillery P, Hermanson JC, Koch G, Lee SL, Kanashiro M, Rimbawanto A, Thomas D, Wiedenhoeft AC, Yin Y, Zahnen J (2015) Forensic timber identification: it's time to integrate disciplines to combat illegal logging. Biol Conserv 191:790-798, DOI:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.06.038

  25. 24

    Degen B, Sebbenn AM (2014) Genetics and tropical forests. In: Pancel L, Köhl M (eds) Tropical forestry handbook. Berlin: Springer, pp 1-30, DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-41554-8_75-1

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