Certification for gene-edited forests

Steven H. Strauss; Wout Boerjan; Vincent Chiang; Adam Costanza; Heather Coleman; John M. Davis; Meng-Zhu Lu; Shawn D. Mansfield; Scott Merkle; Alexander Myburg; Ove Nilsson; Gilles Pilate; William Powell; Armand Seguin; Sofia Valenzuela

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Certification for gene-edited forests

Steven H. Strauss1,*,
Wout Boerjan2,
Vincent Chiang3,
Adam Costanza4,
Heather Coleman5,
John M. Davis6,
Meng-Zhu Lu7,
Shawn D. Mansfield8,
Scott Merkle9,
Alexander Myburg10,
Ove Nilsson11,
Gilles Pilate12,
William Powell13,
Armand Seguin14,
Sofia Valenzuela15

¹Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
²Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University and Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
³Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
⁴Chapel Hill, NC 27517, USA.
⁵Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.
⁶School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
⁷State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China.
⁸Forest Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
⁹Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
¹⁰Department of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Microbiology, and Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa.
¹¹Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183 Umeå, Sweden.
¹²UMR BioForA, INRA, ONF, 45075 Orléans, France.
¹³College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.
¹⁴Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.
¹⁵Facultad Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.

↵* Corresponding author. Email: steve.strauss{at}oregonstate.edu

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Science 23 Aug 2019:
Vol. 365, Issue 6455, pp. 767-768
DOI: 10.1126/science.aay6165

Jennifer Sills

1Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.

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Steven H. Strauss

1Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.

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For correspondence: steve.strauss@oregonstate.edu

Wout Boerjan

2Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University and Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.

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Vincent Chiang

3Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.

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Adam Costanza

4Chapel Hill, NC 27517, USA.

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Heather Coleman

5Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.

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John M. Davis

6School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

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Meng-Zhu Lu

7State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China.

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Shawn D. Mansfield

8Forest Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.

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Scott Merkle

9Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.

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Alexander Myburg

10Department of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Microbiology, and Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa.

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Ove Nilsson

11Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183 Umeå, Sweden.

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Gilles Pilate

12UMR BioForA, INRA, ONF, 45075 Orléans, France.

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William Powell

13College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.

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Armand Seguin

14Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.

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Sofia Valenzuela

15Facultad Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.

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