African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12488

Review

Genetic diversity and conservation of Picea chihuahuana Martínez: A review

Quiñones-Pérez, Carmen Zulema
  • Quiñones-Pérez, Carmen Zulema
  • Institute of Forestry and Wood Industry, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Durango, México.
  • Google Scholar
Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtémoc
  • Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtémoc
  • Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Research, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Michoacán, México.
  • Google Scholar
Wehenkel, Christian*
  • Wehenkel, Christian*
  • Institute of Forestry and Wood Industry, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Durango, México.
  • Google Scholar


  •  Received: 20 January 2014
  •  Accepted: 16 June 2014
  •  Published: 09 July 2014

References

Aguirre-Plater E, Furnier GR, Eguiarte LE (2000). Low levels of genetic variation within and high levels of genetic differentiation among populations of species of Abies from southern Mexico and Guatemala. Am. J. Bot. 87: 362-371.
Crossref
 
Alfaro RI, Fady B, Vendraminc GG, Dawsond IK, Fleminga RA, Sáenz-Romero C, Lindig-Cisneros R, Murdock T, Vinceti B, Navarro CM, Skrøppa T, Baldinelli GK, El-Kassaby YA, Loo J (2014). The role of forest genetic resources in responding to biotic and abiotic factors in the context of anthropogenic climate change. Forest Ecol. Manag.
Crossref
 
Allen CD, Macalady AK, Chenchouni H, Bachelet D, McDowell N, Vennetier M, Kizberger T, Rigling A, Breshears DD, Hogg EH, Gonzalez P, Fensham R, Zhang Z, Castro J, Demidova N, Lim JH, Allard G, Running SW, Semerci A, Cobb N (2010). A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests. Forest Ecol. Manag. 259: 660-684.
Crossref
 
Bobrov E (1970). History and systematics of the genus Picea A. Dietr. [In Russian]. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii 7: 5-40.
 
Bücking W (2003). Are there threshold numbers for protected forests? J. Environ. Manage. 67: 37-45.
Crossref
 
CONAFOR (2011). Status of Forest Genetic Resources in Mexico. National Forestry Commission.
 
Delcourt PA, Delcourt HR (1987). Long term forest dynamics in the temperate zone. New York, Springer-Verlag.
Crossref
 
Du FK, Petit RJ, Liu JQ (2009). More introgression with less gene flow: chloroplast vs. mitochondrial DNA in the Picea asperata complex in China, and comparison with other Conifers. Mol. Ecol. 18:1396-1407.
Crossref
 
Ellstrand NC, Elam DR (1993). Populations genetic consequences of small populations size: implications for plant conservation. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 24: 217-242.
Crossref
 
Ewens WJ, Brockwell PJ, Gani JM, Resnick SI (1987). Minimum viable population size in the presence of catastrophes. In: Viable population for conservation. Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge. p. 59, 60.
 
Farjon A (2010). A Handbook of the World's Conifers. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.
Crossref
 
Farjon A, Page CN, Schellevis N (1993). A preliminary world list of threatened conifer taxa. Biodivers. Conserv. 2: 304-326.
Crossref
 
Frankham R, Ballou JD, Briscoe DA (2002). Introduction to conservation genetics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Crossref
 
García-Arévalo A (2008). Vegetation and flora of a relict forest of Picea chihuahuana Martínez northern Mexico. Polibotánica 25: 45-68.
 
Godt MJW, Hamrick JL, Edwards-Burke MA, Williams JH (2001). Comparisons of genetic diversity in white spruce (Picea glauca) and jack pine (Pinus banksiana) seed orchards with natural populations. Can. J. For. Res. 31: 943-949.
Crossref
 
González-Elizondo MS, González-Elizondo M, Tena-Flores JA, Ruacho-González L, López-Enríquez L (2012). Vegetation of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico: A Synthesis. Acta. Bot. Mex. 100: 351-403.
 
Gordon AG (1968). Ecology of Picea chihuahuana Martínez. Ecology 49: 880-896.
Crossref
 
Gregorius HR (1987). The relationship between the concepts of genetic diversity and differentiation. Theor. Appl. Genet. 74: 397-401.
Crossref
 
Hamrick JL, Godt MJW (1989). Allozyme diversity in plant species. In Plant population genetics, breeding and genetic resources. Edited by A.H.D. Brown, M.T. Clegg, A.L. Kahler, and B.S. Weir. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Mass. pp. 43-63.
 
Hamrick JL, Godt MJW (1996). Effects of life history traits on genetic diversity in plant species. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. 351: 1291-1298.
Crossref
 
Hamrick JL, Godt MJW, Sherman-Broyles SL (1992). Factors influencing levels of genetic diversity in woody plant species. New Forest. 6: 95-124.
Crossref
 
Hansen BCS, Engstrom DR (1985). A comparison of numerical and qualitative methods of separating pollen of white and black spruce. Can. J. Bot. 63: 2159-2163.
Crossref
 
Heuertz M, De Paoli E, Källman T, Larsson H, Jurman I, Morgante M, Lascoux M, Gyllenstrand N (2006). Multilocus Patterns of Nucleotide Diversity, Linkage Disequilibrium and Demographic History of Norway Spruce [Picea abies (L.) Karst]. Genetics 174: 2095-2105.
Crossref
 
Hodgetts RB, Aleksiuk MA, Brown A, Clarke C, Macdonald E, Nadeem S, Khasa D (2001). Development of microsatellite markers for white spruce (Picea glauca) and related species. Theor. Appl. Genet. 102: 1252-1258.
Crossref
 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007). Climate change 2007: the physical basis. Summary for Policymakers. Contribution of Working Group 1 to the Fourth Assessment Report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Geneva, Switzerland: IPCC Secretariat, World Meteorological Organization.
Crossref
 
Isabel N, Beaulieu J, Bousquet J (1995). Complete congruence between gene diversity estimates derived from genotypic data at enzyme and random amplified polymorphic DNA loci in black spruce. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 92: 6369-6373.
Crossref
 
Jacob V (1994). Isoenzyme study of genetic variation in natural populations of Picea chihuahuana, in the states of Chihuahua, Durango and Nuevo Leon. Bachelor Thesis in Biology, ENEP-Iztacala UNAM, Mexico, D.F.
 
Jaramillo-Correa JP, Beaulieu J, Ledig FT, Bousquet J (2006). Decoupled mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA population structure reveals holocene collapse and population isolation in a threatened mexican-endemic conifer. Mol. Ecol. 15: 2787-2800.
Crossref
 
Jeandroz S, Collignon AM, Favre JM (2004). RAPD and mtDNA variation among autochthonous and planted populations of Picea abies from the Vosges mountains (France) in reference to other French populations. Forest. Ecol. Manag. 197: 225-229.
Crossref
 
Karron JD, Linhart YB, Chaulk CA, Robertson CA (1988). Genetic structure of population of geographically restricted and widespread species of Astragalus (Fabaceae). Am. J. Bot. 75: 1114-1119.
Crossref
 
Ledig FT (1988). The Conservation of diversity in forest trees. Bioscience 38: 471-479.
Crossref
 
Ledig FT (2012). Climate Change and Conservation. Acta Silv. Lign. Hung. 8: 57-74.
 
Ledig FT, Bermejo-Velázquez B, Hodgskiss PD, Johnson DR, Flores-López C. Jacob-Cervantes V (2000b). The mating system and genic diversity in Martínez spruce, an extremely rare endemic of México's Sierra Madre Oriental: an example of facultative selfing and survival in interglacial refugia. Can. J. For. Res. 30: 1156-1164.
Crossref
 
Ledig FT, Hodgskiss PD, Jacob-Cervantes V (2002). Genic diversity, the mating system, and conservation of a Mexican subalpine relic, Picea mexicana Martínez. Conserv. Genet. 3: 113-122.
Crossref
 
Ledig FT, Hodgskiss PD, Johnson DR (2005). Genic diversity, genetic structure, and mating system of brewer spruce (Pinaceae), a relict of the arcto-tertiary forest. Am. J. Bot. 92: 1975-1986.
Crossref
 
Ledig FT, Hodgskiss PD, Johnson DR (2006). The structure of genetic diversity in Engelmann spruce and a comparison with blue spruce. Can. J. Bot. 84: 1806-1828.
Crossref
 
Ledig FT, Jacob-Cervantes V, Hodgskiss PD, Eguiluz-Piedra T (1997). Recent evolution and divergence among populations of a rare Mexican endemic, Chihuahua spruce, following Holocene climatic warming. Evolution 51: 1815-1827.
Crossref
 
Ledig FT, Mapula-L M, Bermejo-V B, Reyes-H V, Flores-López C, Capó-Arteaga, MA (2000a). Locations of endangered spruce populations in Mexico and the demography of Picea chihuahuana. Madro-o 47: 71-88.
 
Ledig FT, Rehfeldt GE, Sáenz-Romero C, Flores-López C (2010). Projections of suitable habitat for rare species under global warming scenarios. Am. J. Bot. 97: 970-987.
Crossref
 
Lesica P, Allendorf FW (1992). Are small populations of plants worth preserving? Conserv. Biol. 6: 135-139.
Crossref
 
Loya-Rebollar E, Sáenz-Romero C, Lindig-Cisneros RA, Lobit P, Villegas-Moreno J, Sánchez-Vargas NM (2013). Clinal variation in Pinus hartwegii populations and its application for adaptation to climate change. Silvae Genet. 62(3): 86-95.
 
Lundkvist K (1979). Allozyme frequency distributions in four Swedish populations of Norway spruce (Picea abies K.). Hereditas 90: 127-143.
Crossref
 
Luo J, Wang Y, Korpelainen H, Li C (2005). Allozyme variation in natural populations of Picea asperata. Silva Fenn. 39(2): 167-176.
 
MacDonald GM (1992). Long-term monitoring of boreal forests using fossil pollen records. In: Unasylva, Boreal Forests No. 170. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States.
 
Martínez M (1953). The Mexican Pinaceae. Secretary for Forestry and Hunting, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Mexico.
 
Mata RM (2000). Morphogenesis in Picea chihuahuana, from Tissue Culture of Immature Structures. Doctoral Thesis (Biological Sciences), Faculty of Sciences, UNAM. Mexico, D.F.
 
Mátyás C (2010). Forecasts needed for retreating forests. Nature 464: 1271.
Crossref
 
Maxted N, Guarino L (2006). Genetic erosion and genetic pollution of crop wild relatives. In: Ford-Lloyd BV, Dias SR, Bettencourt E (eds) Genetic erosion and pollution assessment methodologies. Proceedings of PGR Forum Workshop 5, Terceira Island, Autonomous Region of the Azores, Portugal, 8–11 September 2004, pp. 35-45. Published on behalf of the European Crop Wild Relative Diversity Assessment and Conservation Forum, by Bioversity International, Rome, Italy, p. 100. 
 
Mendoza-Maya E, Espino-Espino J, Qui-ones-Pérez CZ, Flores-López C, Wehenkel C, Vargas-Hernández JJ, Sáenz-Romero C (2014). Proposal for a conservation of three Mexican endangered spruces species. Submitted.
 
Mexican Official Standard Norm (2010). NOM-059-ECOL-2010. Environmental protection. Mexico native species of flora and fauna. Risk categories and specifications for inclusion, exclusion or change. List of species at risk. Official Journal of the Federation (Second section): 1-77.
 
Millar CI, Libby WJ (1991). Strategies for conserving clinal, ecotypic, and disjunct population diversity in widespread species. In: Falk DA, Holsinger KE (eds) Genetics and conservation of rare plants. Oxford University Press, New York. pp. 149-170.
 
Molina-Freaner FP, Delgado D, Pi-ero N, Pérez-Nasser, Alvarez-Buylla E (2001). Do rare pines need different conservation strategies? Evidence from three Mexican species. Can. J. Bot. 79: 131-138.
Crossref
 
Namroud MC, Bousquet J, Doerksen T, Beaulieu J (2012). Scanning SNPs from a large set of expressed genes to assess the impact of artificial selection on the undomesticated genetic diversity of white spruce. Evol. Appl. 5: 641-656.
Crossref
Narváez FR (1984). Contribution to the Knowledge of the Ecology of Picea chihuahuana. Professional thesis (Biology), Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.
 
Narváez FR, Sánchez JC, Olivas AM (1983). Distribution and population of Picea chihuahuana. Technical Note No. 6. National Institute of Forestry and Livestock Research. Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources.
 
Newton AC, Allnutt TR, Gillies ACM, Lowe AJ, Ennos RA (1999). Molecular phylogeography, intraspecific variation and the conservation of tree species. Trends Ecol. Evol. 14: 140-145.
Crossref
 
O'Connell LM, Mosseler A, Rajora OP (2006).Impacts of forest fragmentation on the mating system and genetic diversity of white spruce (Picea glauca) at the landscape level. Heredity 97: 418-426.
Crossref
 
Patterson TE (1988). A new species of Picea (Pinaceae) from Nuevo León, Mexico. Sida. Contrib. Botany 13: 131:135.
 
Perry DJ, Bousquet J (1998). Sequence-tagged-site (STS) markers of arbitrary genes: development, characterization and analysis of linkage in black spruce. Genetics 149: 1089-1098.
Pubmed
 
Perry DJ, Bousquet J (1998). Sequence-tagged-site (STS) markers of arbitrary genes: the utility of black spruce-derived STS primers in other conifers. Theor. Appl. Genet. 97: 735-743.
Crossref
 
Pi-ero D, Caballero-Mellado J, Cabrera-Toledo D, Canteros CE, Casas A, Casta-eda-Sortibrán A, Castillo A, Cerritos R, Chassin-Noria O, Colunga-García Marín, Delgado P, Díaz-Jaimes P, Eguiarte LE, Escalante AE, Espinoza B, Fleury A, Flores S, Fragoso G, González-Astorga J, Islas V, Martínez E, Martínez F, Martínez-Castillo J, Mastretta A, Medellín R, Medrano-González L, Molina-Freaner F, Morales B, Murguía A, Payró de la Cruz E, Reyes-Montes MR, Robles MR, Rodríguez G, Rojas L, Romero-Martínez R, Sahaza-Cardona JH, Salas R, Sciutto E, Baker CS, Schramm Y, Silva C, Souza V, Taylor ML, Urbán J, Uribe-Alcocer M, Vázquez MJ, Vázquez-Domínguez E, Vovides AP, Wegier A, Zaldívar A, Zú-iga G (2008). The genetic diversity as a tool for conservation and use of biodiversity: studies in Mexican species, in natural Capital of Mexico, vol. I: Current knowledge of biodiversity. CONABIO, MEXICO, pp. 437-494.
 
Prentice IC, Bartlein PJ, Webb IIIT (1991). Vegetation and climate in eastern North America since the last glacial maximum. Ecology 72: 2038-2056.
Crossref
 
Qui-ones-Pérez CZ, Sáenz-Romero C, Wehenkel C (2014). Influence of neighbouring tree species on AFLP variants of endangered Picea chihuahuana populations on the Sierra Madre Occidental, Northeastern México. Pol. J. Ecol. 62:55-65.
 
Rungis D, Bérubé Y, Zhang J, Ralph S, Ritland CE, Ellis BE, Douglas C, Bohlmann J Ritland K (2004). Robust simple sequence repeat markers for spruce (Picea spp.) from expressed sequence tags. Theor. Appl. Genet. 109: 1283-1294.
Crossref
 
Sáenz-Romero C, Rehfeldt GE, Crookston NL, Duval P, St-Amant R, Beaulieu J, Richardson BA (2010). Spline models of contemporary, 2030, 2060 and 2090 climates for Mexico and their use in understanding climate-change impacts on the vegetation. Clim. Chang. 102: 595-623.
Crossref
 
Sánchez CJ (1984). Picea chihuahuana, an endangered Conifer. Cienc. Forest. 9: 51-63.
 
Sánchez CJ, Narváez FR (1983). Picea chihuahuana Mrtz. an endangered Conifer. Technical Note No. 5. Centre of Northern Forest Research. National Institute of Forestry and Livestock Research. Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources.
 
Sánchez CJ, Narváez FR (1990). Integral plan for the protection and encouragement of Picea chihuahuana Martinez. Centre of Forestry and Livestock Research of Chihuahua State. National Institute of Forestry and Livestock Research. Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources.
 
SARH (1993). Normative Manual of Forest Sanitation. Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources. Volume II, Annex 3: 96-97.
 
Schaal BA, Haywordth DA, Olsen KM, Rauscher TJ (1998). Phylogeographic studies in plants: problems and prospects. Mol. Ecol. 7: 465-474.
Crossref
 
Schemske DW, Lande R (1985). The evolution of self-fertilization and inbreeding depression in plants. II. Empirical observations. Evolution 39: 41-52.
Crossref
 
Shaffer ML (1981). Minimum population sizes for species conservation. BioScience 31: 131-34.
Crossref
 
St. Clair JB, Howe GT (2011). Strategies for conserving forest genetic resources in the face of climate change. Turk. J. Bot. 35: 403-409.
 
Tollefsrud MM, Sonstebo JH, Brochmann C, Johnsen O, Skroppa T, Vendramin GG (2009). Combined analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial markers provide new insight into the genetic structure of North European Picea abies. Heredity 102: 549-562.
Crossref
 
Traill LW, Bradshaw CJA, Brook BW (2011). Minimum viable population size: A meta-analysis of 30 years of published estimates. Biol. Conserv. 139: 159-166.
Crossref
 
Vera G (1990). A few rare and threatened tree species in Mexico. National Institute of Forestry and Livestock Research. Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources.
 
Viveros-Viveros H, Tapia-Olivares BL, Sáenz-Romero C, Vargas-Hernández JJ, López-Upton J, Santacruz-Varela A, Ramírez-Valverde G (2010). Isozyme variation in Pinus hartwegii Lindl. along an altitudinal gradient in Michoacan, Mexico. Agrociencia 44: 723-733.
 
Wang Y, Luo J, Xue X, Korpelainen H, Li C (2004). Diversity of microsatellite markers in the populations of Picea asperata originating from the mountains of China. Plant Sci. 168: 707-714.
Crossref
 
Wehenkel C, Sáenz-Romero C (2012). Estimating genetic erosion using the example of Picea chihuahuana Martínez. Tree Genet. Genomes Wehenkel, Unpublished.
Crossref
 
Wright JW (1955). Species crossability in spruce in relation to distribution and taxonomy. For. Sci. 1: 319-349.
 
Wright S (1938). Size of population and breeding structure in relation to evolution. Science 87: 430-431.
 
Wright S (1969). Evolution and genetics of populations. Vol. 2. The theory of gene frequencies. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
 
Youngblood A, Safford LO (2002). Picea A. Dietr. Spruce. In: Forest service, U.S Department of Agriculture Publisher. Woody Plant Seed Manual. pp. 793-806.