Current Status and Perspective of Wood Biotechnology from an Industrial Aspect

Biotechnological approaches, e.g. genomic selection, genetic manipulation and new breeding technolo-gy, are big tools for plant breeding, because woody plants are cultivated for longer times as compared with crops. The recent development of next generation sequencer allows opening genome information of many organisms. Genomic selection using genome information can be rapidly applied for forest tree breeding. In the future tailor-made woody plants would be bred depending on their purpose by biotechnology.