Abstract:Abstracts:Conifers are the major source of wood, biomass and many other products all over the word. Conifer genomes are extremely large,therefore related research is fraught with difficulties. In recent years, along with the new technology and new method appears and national investment increase, several important conifers have carried out extensive and in depth research on sequences and sequence based resources, datamining ESTs for gene family analyses, non coding small RNAs, transcript profiling, SNP resources and comparative mapping, association studies and QTL analyses and so on. The results of these studies have greatly promoted the conifer genomes research progress. This paper summarizes the progress on conifer genomes in recent years, and the future research directions are discussed also,in order to provide reference for the study in this field.