Newsletter January 02

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, now I think we can relax and conclude nothing very bad happened at this Millennium shift as most critical deadlines seems to have passed safely.

 

WFGA. Meeting abstracts at:

http://dendrome.ucdavis.edu/ifg/WFGA/abstracts.htm

 

NCSU - Raleigh

Swedish tree breeding and forest genetics have always tried to cooperate with Raleigh. Now I think these efforts are more intensive than ever before. Gunnar Jansson from SkogForsk is there. I am now and adjunct professor at NCSU and will go there 3-15 February (perhaps keeping Gunnar’s chair warm). I run a student joint with NCSU (Milan Lstiburek). An undergraduate, who just has ended his examination work with Jan-Erik Nilsson (Daniel Gräns) got the Nicholson scholarship for doctorand studies and started a PhD program at Raleigh early 2002. The Raleigh tree breeding get a rather informative site at:
http://www.cfr.ncsu.edu:8100/for/research/tip/tip.html

 

New biotech link at
http://pewagbiotech.org/
http://pewagbiotech.org/resources/factsheets/display.php3?FactsheetID=1

 

Abstracts on aspects of clones forest geneticists may not be accustomed to may be found at:
http://clone_2000.tripod.com/proceedings-papers.htm

 

Interested in effects of long term selection? When this meeting may be of interest!
http://nautilus.outreach.uiuc.edu/conted/conference.asp?ID=211

 

A coming IUFRO meeting about west American species (contorta,….)
http://www.inra.fr/Internet/Projets/SteCatherine/Colloque/iufro/Prog.htm

 

Molecular Population Genetics lab at Umeå

I said in the previous newsletter I would present the history of the lab now, when its history has came to an end. I make a link to what I have written so far.
http://daglindgren.upsc.se/Documentations/MolGenHistory.doc
However, this is considered a draft, do not hesitate to comment or correct, I will take it up in a future newsletter and change the current document.

 

Clonal forestry – who are you kidding?

Meeting in Scotland

Tuesday 3rd September to Thursday 5th September 2002.

 

Arranged by and more information from

Sam Samuel, Steve Lee and Allan John

Email:   nordicgenetics@forestry.gov.uk

 

Statistics from the Swedish National Board of Forestry

I found that Swedish forest statistics can be obtained at
http://www.svo.se/fakta/stat/
(even in English)

An example of what I found (which I think is an important consideration in tree breeding as well as connected research) is shown:

Number of delivered seedlings for use in Sweden by tree species

 

 

 

Tree species

 

 

 

 

2000

Scots pine

Norway spruce

Other coniferous

Broadleaves

Sum (millions of plants)

Number of
million plants

125

187

11

2,9

326

 

38%

57%

3%

1%

 

 

Seminar announcement

ett seminarium med titeln Mass micro-propagation of forest trees.

Dr. Radjani Nadgauda från UCL i Pune, Indien,

 

Seminariet kommer att hållas i Blåklockan, plan 3 på SkogForsk (Glunten),

fredagen den 25 januari klockan 1300.

 

The Uppsala Forest Genetics Department has upgraded its homepage in the later half of 2001, maybe you will soon see the seminar above at it, it is at

http://www.sgen.slu.se/

 

Val av skogsodlingsmaterial

This program is available via http://www.skogforsk.se/  “Kunskap direkt”

Unfortunately I gave, besides the link above, internal links to SkogForsk server in the November01 Newsletter, and in a rather clumsy way. Theoretically this may mislead costumers to use outdated or non-functioning experimental versions (even if I doubt this risk is a real one). I explain one of the reasons. I suggest this program is a very good way of codifying the practical conclusions and recommendations, which are the most important cumulated result of an investment of thousands of man-years. It is in Swedish and directed to a Swedish audience, but still the style and layout is of interest as inspiration for foreigners. In principle my mailing list is a domestic one, but it includes a number of foreigners in Sweden which do not understand-Swedish and foreigners, which for some reason have been or will come into close contact with Swedish circumstances. I strongly support a direction to more internationalism, as much as possible of even our internal decisions should be transparent to people who does not understand Swedish. These persons will probably not be able to find the link based on the Swedish explanations, in particular as you have to think repeatedly how to link. I often make a point of that Swedish Forest Tree Breeding has good documents, but most of them are in Swedish. Foreigners with a weak knowledge of Swedish but a strong interest on the subject may be interested enough to click on a link, and I guess those I describe will understand the main idea, even if explanations are in Swedish. But I thought they must be very motivated to be able, so I still wrote explanations in Swedish. Excuse me for making a mistake!