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Project
Large scale project on genetic timber verification
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
Involved Thünen-Partners
Involved external Thünen-Partners
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Carvalho C, Lima HCde, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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, Lima HCde, 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
