A pine tree isany coniferfrom thePinusgenus of plants, and this group includes more than 120 types of pine trees worldwide. These are evergreen conifers,woody plantsthat bear seed cones and which have bundles of needles rather than the broad leaves commonly found on deciduous trees. Pines ar...
However, it is difficult to employ MAS in conifers, primarily because their genomes are very big and complex and are largely uncharacterized. Indeed, very few DNA markers linked to major genes have been reported in conifers; the only ones of note are some dominant markers linked to a major...