Breeding and
genetics of forest trees
This is a major entry to
Dag Lindgren's website
Tree Breeding Tools (TBT),
programs for analyzing and optimizing tree breeding
The research group managed by Dag Lindgren
Education in
Tree Breeding and Forest Genetics
Ongoing course tree breeding for
undergraduates
Dag
Lindgren's personal homepage
Introduction (to
TBT, but relevant for the whole web)
Links
News
The lower part of this page
is used for news and links to matters, which may appear or I would like to
focus your attention on. If you want something announced or have comments, let
me know. If you find this resource valuable, you may want to tip a colleague or
student about its existence.
International
IUFRO Conference of the WP2.08.03 on Silviculture and Improvement of Eucalypts
11-15 October, 2004
The book Eucalyptus
Plantations – Research, Management and Development has recently
been published and is
available for sale .
A research school in forest genetics and tree breeding
has been initiated in Sweden. Two assistant professors will be nominated.
Eleven post-graduated students will be recruited within the near future.
There are plenty of biotech links, this is
an informative one about transgenic crops
Links to forest genetic and tree breeding
organizations. Please, inform me about the best link to your
organization if you think it should be included in the list or if the link
representing your organization should be improved!
A plant
breeding Nordic-Baltic post graduate course is arranged in Norway in June 2004.
Forest tree breeding post graduate students or active workers or breeders are
welcome. Information is also available at NOVA web: http://www.nova-university.org/
Train your skills in plant
breeding! (exe.program for play and training).
Forest Genetic resources: their use and
conservation A conference held in Húsavík, Iceland, August 27-29, 2003 by the
Nordic Group for the Management of Genetic Resources of Trees. Information
about the meeting, my lecture (about the number of clones in seed orchards)
abstract and slide show and some pictures.
Annual bulletin Forest Genetic Resources, produced by
FAO's Forest Resources Development Service
Reading, which I consider
useful as introduction to the theory
of gene diversity in forest tree breeding (it is also available as a slideshow)
and gene diversity in seed orchards.
T Did
you know that the Scandinavian countries (including Sweden) are among the best
in the World ("World Social Leader") and has been on the top since
long?
A similar impression gives Human
Development Report 2002, (E.g Table A1 in chapter 1)
Corruption is
low on a comparative scale, as compared by Transparency International Corruption
Perceptions Index!
Well, well, well this is a sad statistics to me, I do not think we are that
good, and is it worse everywhere else, the World is a very inefficient
place!
The background to our institution (the
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology) was written as
the department is now 25 years old. Now it seems that I will be transferred to
another house at March 2004. Probably our activity will be strengthened by the
"research school" at about the same time. My address and affiliation
will remain the same. We are thinking about some activity to mark the end of
"the corridor" for those who spent a time in it. If you belong to
them, your input would be appreciated!
A Course in Thailand in tropical forestry
targeting for Nordic students. Nordic tree breeders (including me) get more
and more involved in Tropical countries, so some research student in tree
breeding or forest genetics may see this as a good idea.
The information available on this site at early Oct 03 and mid Aug 03 (links in information
sometimes does not work any more).
Nordic News in Scandinavian:
Nordiska
skogsbrukets frö och plantråd, där för närvarande Lennart Ackzell är
ordförande och Carina Strömberg sekreterare, har en hemsida. Där kan man bl a
hitta planer på och dokumentation från konferenser och temadagar och länkar.
Swedish News:
Nedanstående föreskrifter är viktiga för svensk
skogsgenetik, de baseras på EU-direktiv och har först nyligen i sin helhet
blivit tillgängliga på nätet
Skogsstyrelsens
föreskrifter om produktion för saluföring, saluföring samt införsel för
saluföring av skogsodlingsmaterial
Bilagor
till sksfs2002:2
A seminar about
long-term breeding is planned for February 20 (Friday), 2004. at Umeå.
A forest genetics seminar will
take place at November 28, start at 9.15 at Enen, Skogis, Umeå.
Ideas for cooperation between Sweden faculty of Forestry Umeå and
tropical forestry on: www.sek.slu.se/eng/uctree
Ideas for cooperation between Sweden and south Asia on http://www.sasnet.lu.se/.
Senaste
årsrapport från det första cooperativet i södra USA, lägg märke till att i historiken överst på sid 10
utpekas Åke Gustavsson, den första professorn i skogsgenetik i Sverige, som den
tändande gnistan till förädlingen i södra USA.
Föreningens planerade sammanträde 17 november 2003 har
senarelagts och kommer istället att äga rum 15 december, det har kommit in
ansökningar på knappt 30 miljoner!
RGS sammanträder 4-5 maj i Skåne.
SLU har ett forskningspolitiskt dokument på
http://www.slu.se/dettaar/strategi/pdf/forskningsstrat2003.pdf
Comments: IT is dynamic, rules, program, webmasters ideas, security constraints,
links, administrative factors, and my own ideas are not constant over time and
IT-environments and I make mistakes sometimes. Thus, do not be too surprised if
things do not work as I expected them to (e.g. links do not work or you are not
authorized to look). If something worked before it may still be at this web,
but on another place, try browsing. Get in touch with me if you really want to
solve a problem. I get few comments about this web. but most are that things
like links does not work. One reason maybe that much of the links are done with
Microsoft programs and thus incompatibility with the competitors browser
Netscape.
This page was last edited 03-11-26