Unasylva - No. 119-120 - Genetics













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Vol. 30

1978

An international review of forestry and forest products

FAO - The Food And Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

EDITOR, T.M. Pasca

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COVER: Pollen from a linden tree (Tilia cordata) seen through electron microscope

Photograph from Finnish Forest Research Institute

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Table of Contents


Introduction

B.J. Zobel
Keynote address: The good life... or subsistence

R.H. Kemp
Exploration, utilization and conservation of genetic resources

J.F. Lacaze
Advances in species and provenance selection

D.P. Fowler
Population improvement and hybridization

H.M. Heybroek
Primary considerations: multiplication and genetic diversity

A. Carlisle and A.H. Teich
Analysing benefits and costs of tree-breeding programmes

G. Namkoong
Choosing strategies for the future

L.D. Pryor
Reproductive habits of the eucalypts

References

Exploration, utilization and conservation of resources
Population improvement and hybridization
Primary considerations: multiplication and genetic diversity
Analysing benefits and costs of tree breeding programmes
Choosing strategies for the future

Consultation documents

Keynote address
Invited lecture
Position papers
Invited special papers and voluntary papers

Recommendations from the third World Consultation on Forest Tree Breeding

General
Technical

Progress on general recommendations made by the second World Consultation on Forest Tree Breeding, Washington, 1969

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