Tree Breeding: Principles and Strategies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Tree Breeding Opportunities and Limitations

   • Gene Namkoong, Hyun Chung Kang, Jean Sébastien Brouard

   Pages 1-10

3. Defining Gene Effects

   • Gene Namkoong, Hyun Chung Kang, Jean Sébastien Brouard

   Pages 11-36

4. Basic Concepts in Recurrent Selection

   • Gene Namkoong, Hyun Chung Kang, Jean Sébastien Brouard

   Pages 37-55

5. General Recurrent Selection Systems

   • Gene Namkoong, Hyun Chung Kang, Jean Sébastien Brouard

   Pages 56-73

6. Selection Techniques

   • Gene Namkoong, Hyun Chung Kang, Jean Sébastien Brouard

   Pages 74-102

7. Environments

   • Gene Namkoong, Hyun Chung Kang, Jean Sébastien Brouard

   Pages 103-119

8. Coping with Present and Future Breeding Problems

   • Gene Namkoong, Hyun Chung Kang, Jean Sébastien Brouard

   Pages 120-131

9. Provenance Testing, Ecogeographic Surveys, and Conservation

   • Gene Namkoong, Hyun Chung Kang, Jean Sébastien Brouard

   Pages 132-159

10. Back Matter

    Pages 161-180

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It has become apparent, during discussions with students and colleagues in forest genetics, that a universal concern is the achievement of diverse goals of forestry from fiber production in industrial as well as farm forests to conserving forest ecosystems. Although we generally have several breeding methods available and several species to breed, we seek to satisfy multiple-use goals on diverse sites by management techniques that at best can only partially control edaphic environmental variation. The dominant approach, which was agriculturally motivated, has involved inten­ sive effort with complicated breeding plans on single species for uniform adaptability and single-product plantations. However, this is obviously neither the only, nor necessarily the best, solution for the genetic management of tree species, and thus our intent in this volume is to develop ways to achieve multiple objectives in tree breeding. We include an array of breeding plans from simple iterated designs to sets of multiple populations capable of using gene actions for different traits in different environments for uncertain futures. The presentation is organized around the development of breeding from single-to multiple-option plans, from single to multiple traits, from single to mUltiple environ­ ments, and from single to multiple populations. However, it is not a complete "How To" book, and includes neither exercises nor instructions on data handling. It also does not include discussion of all modes of reproduction and inheritance encountered in plants.

• Conservation
• complexity
• ecology
• environment
• forest
• tree

• Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Raleigh, USA

  Gene Namkoong

• Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

  Gene Namkoong

• North Central Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, Madison, USA

  Hyun Chung Kang

• Department of Forestry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

  Hyun Chung Kang

• International Resources Group Ltd., USA

  Jean Sébastien Brouard

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