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Information about several papers discussed at the Forestry Workshop of the Plant and Animal Genome XV Conference, held in January 2007 in San Diego, California is presented. The event focused on the genomics and evolution of forest trees, including topics on adaptive polymorphisms, quantitative trait locus analysis and tree life style. It featured presentations by Emanuele De Paoli, Gail Taylor and Gerald Tuskan.

Information about several papers discussed at the polyploidy workshop of the Plant and Animal Genome XV Conference, held in January 2007 in San Diego, California is presented. The event covered several topics such as ancient polyploidy events in Glycine, expression evolution of duplicate genes, gene expression changes, hybridization barriers in Arabidopsis and tissue-specific and stress-induced expression patterns of duplicate genes in cotton and hybrid Populus.

Information about several papers discussed at the Fungal Genomics Workshop: Plant and Animal Genome XV Conference, held in January 2007 in San Diego, California is presented. The event focused on comparative genomics and global functional analyses in relation to fungi and oomycetes. It featured presentations by Sophien Kamoun, Gert Kema and Gary Payne.

Information on several papers discussed at the Mediterranean Ecosystems (MEDECOS) XII conference on fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits held in Los Angeles, California on September 2011 is presented. Topics include ecological science, role of fire in biome distribution, and micro-evolutionary approach to show the natural selection driven by fire. The conference features several presenters including William Bond, Susana Gómez-González, and Juli G. Pausas.