Francisco M Cánovas is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Málaga University where he has been responsible of the Research Facilities and the Functional Genomics Unit. At the present time he is the head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, coordinator of the PhD program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Director of a research group in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. His research interests are related to the Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Genomics and Biotechnology of nitrogen metabolism.

• 1. Genomics of forest treesNathaniel Robert Street2. Resources for conifer functional genomics at the omics eraRafael A. Cañas, M. Belen Pascual, Fernando N. de la Torre, Concepcion Avila and Francisco M. Cánovas3. The ectomycorrhizal contribution to tree nutritionAdeline Becquer, Carmen Guerrero-Galán, Janice L. Eibensteiner, Gabriella Houdinet, Heike Bücking, Sabine D. Zimmermann and Kevin Garcia4. Nitrogen storage and cycling in treesGen Li and Gary D. Coleman5. Embryology in conifersSara von Arnold, David Clapham and Malin Abrahamsson6. Activity of the shoot apical and cambial meristems: Coordination and responses to environmental signalsRita Teresa Teixeira, Xiaoyan Sheng and Amy M. Brunner7. Digging in wood: New insights in the regulation of wood formation in tree speciesEduardo L.O.Camargo, Raphaël Ployet , Hua Cassan-Wang, Fabien Mounet and Jacqueline Grima-Pettenati8. Cell wall pectins in tree growth and woody biomass utilizationScott A. Harding and Chung-Jui Tsai9. Applications of transgenic approaches in developing an understanding of drought tolerance in poplar Edward G. Kirby and Juan-Jesús Molina-Rueda10. Phytoremediation with treesLuis Gomez, Angela Contreras, David Bolonio, Julia Quintana, Luis Onate-Sanchez and Irene Merino