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Article

Meteorological Conditions and Site Productivity Modulate Genetic Controls over Radial Increment, but Not the Sensitivity of Hemiboreal Scots Pine

by
Raitis Rieksts-Riekstiņš
1,
Didzis Elferts
1,*,
Roberts Matisons
1,
Pauls Zeltiņš
1,
Diāna Jansone
1,
Ieva Jaunslaviete
1,
Āris Jansons
1,
Adomas Stoncelis
2,
Aušra Juškauskaitė
2 and
Virgilijus Baliuckas
2
1
Latvian State Forest Research Institute ‘Silava’, 111 Rigas Str., LV-2169 Salaspils, Latvia
2
Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute of Forestry, Liepų Str. 1, Girionys, 53101 Kaunas, Lithuania
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Forests 2026, 17(7), 806; https://doi.org/10.3390/f17070806
Submission received: 11 June 2026 / Revised: 5 July 2026 / Accepted: 7 July 2026 / Published: 9 July 2026
(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
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Abstract

The increasing stresses imposed on forests by climatic changes require agile and adaptive management, in which tree breeding plays a crucial role. Assessment of G×E interactions has been highlighted as an explicit source of information for targeted breeding for resilience and productivity via better coupling of the demands of genotypes and locally anticipated climatic changes. Commonly, the genetic effects are evaluated for morphometric traits, which are a cumulative representation of the past conditions. In this study, the variability of increment and its relation to weather fluctuations were addressed as a climate-sensitive functional trait. Parallel Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) progeny trials representing hemiboreal conditions and a local productivity (edaphic) gradient in Lithuania were studied to evaluate G×E effects on increment, combining tree-ring analysis and quantitative genetics. Scots pine progenies showed low environmental sensitivity of radial increment, which, however, showed complex region-specific relationships with
Keywords: heritability; genetic interactions; tree-ring width; resilience components; tree breeding heritability; genetic interactions; tree-ring width; resilience components; tree breeding

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Rieksts-Riekstiņš, R.; Elferts, D.; Matisons, R.; Zeltiņš, P.; Jansone, D.; Jaunslaviete, I.; Jansons, Ā.; Stoncelis, A.; Juškauskaitė, A.; Baliuckas, V. Meteorological Conditions and Site Productivity Modulate Genetic Controls over Radial Increment, but Not the Sensitivity of Hemiboreal Scots Pine. Forests 2026, 17, 806. https://doi.org/10.3390/f17070806

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Rieksts-Riekstiņš R, Elferts D, Matisons R, Zeltiņš P, Jansone D, Jaunslaviete I, Jansons Ā, Stoncelis A, Juškauskaitė A, Baliuckas V. Meteorological Conditions and Site Productivity Modulate Genetic Controls over Radial Increment, but Not the Sensitivity of Hemiboreal Scots Pine. Forests. 2026; 17(7):806. https://doi.org/10.3390/f17070806

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Rieksts-Riekstiņš, Raitis, Didzis Elferts, Roberts Matisons, Pauls Zeltiņš, Diāna Jansone, Ieva Jaunslaviete, Āris Jansons, Adomas Stoncelis, Aušra Juškauskaitė, and Virgilijus Baliuckas. 2026. "Meteorological Conditions and Site Productivity Modulate Genetic Controls over Radial Increment, but Not the Sensitivity of Hemiboreal Scots Pine" Forests 17, no. 7: 806. https://doi.org/10.3390/f17070806

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Rieksts-Riekstiņš, R., Elferts, D., Matisons, R., Zeltiņš, P., Jansone, D., Jaunslaviete, I., Jansons, Ā., Stoncelis, A., Juškauskaitė, A., & Baliuckas, V. (2026). Meteorological Conditions and Site Productivity Modulate Genetic Controls over Radial Increment, but Not the Sensitivity of Hemiboreal Scots Pine. Forests, 17(7), 806. https://doi.org/10.3390/f17070806

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