Leading Canadian researchers, under the auspices of the Canadian Forest Health Genomics Initiative, and jointly supported by Canada's six regional genome centres, have authored a strategy paper describing the opportunities for and potential benefits arising from employing genomics research to better manage forest health. Genomics research and the enabling resources it creates can help address some of the major threats and challenges - including invasive and indigenous insect pests, invasive plants and climate change - now faced by the stewards of the country's forests and associated industries.
