Kärkkäinen, Katri

Ph.D., Professor

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Expertise

• professor in forest genetics
• population genetics
• gene resources
• tree breeding

Research Projects

Current

• FORGER - Towards the Sustainable Management of Forest Genetic Resources in Europe
  
• Genetic variation in growth rhythm and pest and disease resistance: potential applications in tree breeding and gene conservation work
  

Former

• EVOLTREE - Evolution of Trees as drivers of Terrestrial Biodiversity
  
• FuncWood 2 - Towards knowledge-based breeding of wood
  
• Genetic basis of adapted traits and economically important characteristics in forest trees
  
• Genetic basis of adapted traits and economically important characteristics in forest trees
  
• NOVELTREE- Novel Tree Breeding Strategies
  
• TREEBREEDEX: a working model network of tree improvement for competitive, multifunctional and sustainable European forestry
  
• TREESNIPS - Developing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) markers for adaptive variation in forest trees
  
• The effects of reproduction dynamics on the genetic diversity in the forest trees
  

Contacts

Keywords: Forest genetics, Genetic conservation,Tree breeding,DNA-techniques, molecular breeding