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Conserving Asian Rosewoods

How critically endangered Asian rosewoods have adapted across their ranges, how they cope with drought and heat, and what that means for their conservation and restoration.

People: T. H. (Henry) Hung
Kalyani Lenton
Rosemary Gooda
Themes: conservation genomics
adaptation
rosewoods

Siamese rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis) and its relative D. oliveri are critically endangered trees of Southeast Asia. To protect and restore them, we need to know which populations are adapted to which conditions, and how they will fare as the climate changes.

We combine genomics, physiology and landscape data: reference transcriptomes for the genus, range-wide studies of local adaptation and genomic offset, and experiments on how seedlings respond to drought and heat. The results feed into priority setting for conservation and restoration across the region.

Related publications

Range-wide differential adaptation and genomic offset in critically endangered Asian rosewoods

Hung, T. H.^{* corresponding author}, So, T., Thammavong, B., Chamchumroon, V., Theilade, I., Phourin, C., Bouamanivong, S., Hartvig, I., Gaisberger, H., Jalonen, R., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J.^{* corresponding author}

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(33), e2301603120.

Environmental and transcriptomic determinants of drought response in critically endangered Siamese rosewood

Hung, T. H.^{* corresponding author}, Lenton, K., Chhang, P., Chamchumroon, V., Thammavong, B., Jalonen, R., Theilade, I. & MacKay, J. J.^{* corresponding author}

Under reviewPlant, Cell & Environment.

Preprint for “Environmental and transcriptomic determinants of drought response in critically endangered Siamese rosewood” (opens in a new tab)

Physiological responses of rosewoods Dalbergia cochinchinensis and D. oliveri under drought and heat stresses

Hung, T. H.^{^ co-first author}^{* corresponding author}, Gooda, R.^{^ co-first author}, Rizzuto, G., So, T., Thammavong, B., Tran, H. T., Jalonen, R., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J.^{* corresponding author}

Ecology and Evolution, 10(19), 10872–10885.

Reference transcriptomes and comparative analyses of six species in the threatened rosewood genus Dalbergia

Hung, T. H.^{* corresponding author}, So, T., Sreng, S., Thammavong, B., Boounithiphonh, C., Boshier, D. H. & MacKay, J. J.^{* corresponding author}

Scientific Reports, 10, 17749.

Range-wide priority setting for the conservation and restoration of Asian rosewood species accounting for multiple threats and ecogeographic diversity

Gaisberger, H.^{* corresponding author}, Fremout, T., So, T., Thammavong, B., Bounithiphonh, C., Hoa, T. T., Zheng, Y., Kanchanarak, T., Changtragoon, S., Sreng, S., Ping, H., Hung, T. H., Win, P. P., Hartvig, I., Theilade, I., Boshier, D., MacKay, J., Kettle, C. & Jalonen, R.

Biological Conservation, 270, 109560.

Effective conservation of Asian Rosewoods (Dalbergias) and their genetic resources through regional collaboration

Jalonen, R., Theilade, I., Hartvig, I., Hung, T. H., MacKay, J., Yuskianti, V., Bounithiphonh, C., Gaisberger, H., Ping, H., Sreng, S., Zheng, Y. & Warrier, R. R.

In R. R. Warrier, G. Joshi & A. N. Arunkumar (Eds.), Handbook of Asian Rosewoods (pp. 461–471). Springer Nature.