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Appendixes (continue)

Appendix 8
FOREST GENETIC RESOURCES PRIORITIES (BY REGION, SPECIES AND OPERATION) (continue)

OperationImportance ratingOperational priority ratingRemarks
ExplorationEvaluationConservationUtilisation
SpeciesWood ProductionOther PurposesBotanicalGenecologicalCollection for TestingTesting
(Provenance Trials)
In SituCollection for ConservationStorage as Seed etc.Ex Situ in Artificial StandsUse of Bulk SuppliesIndividual Selection and Breeding
6. Mediterranean Region, Southern Europe and Near East         
Abies cephalonica
1 22313---12 
Abies nebrodensis
 1----1111--(E)
Abies
nordmanniana/
bornmülleriana
2 3322----22 
Abies pinsapo
2 --2-2----- 
Cedrus atlantica
2 2222----12 
Cedrus libani
2 33221-----(E) in Lebanon
Cupressus sempervirens
1 -211----1-testing for resistance to Coryneum cardinale
Cupressus dupreziana
 111--111111(E)
Picea omorica
3 -3--3----- 
Pinus brutia
1 -3-1-1--11provenance trials starting in 74–75
Pinus brutia var. eldarica
1 222111112-(E)
Pinus halepensis
1 ---1----11provenance trials starting in 74–75
Pinus nigra
1 1111---111 
Pinus peuce
3 33-------- 
Pinus pinaster
1 -222111111selection and breeding in progress
Pinus pinea
22--------1- 
           
7. (a) North, North-East and Central Asia          
Abies pinceana
3 -33------- 
Abies pindrow
3 -33------- 
Abies sachalinensis
2 -222------of value for species hybridization
Abies spp. (Central and S. China)
 3-22-------ornamental, and breeding through species hybridization
Alnus sp.
22-22-------soil conservation, hybridization
Cedrus deodara
2 -22------- 
Chosenia arbutifolia
2 -22-------possible use for South America on “mini-rotation”
Cryptomeria japonica
1 --22-----2of interest also to N.E. India
Cunninghamia lanceolata
3 -33------- 
Cupressus torulosa var. kashmiriana
2 -1-------2 
Juglans regia
 1----1-----nut crop, also for agricultural purposes
Larix griffithii
2 1--------- 
Larix leptolepis
1 ---------2 
Larix sibirica
1 --22------ 
Larix sukaczewii
1 --22----2- 
Picea asperata
3 -22-------largely unknown
Picea spp. (Central and S. China)
22-22-------possibilities for use outside China
Pinus armandii
2 -22------- 
Pinus cembra
33--1-------important for rust resistance breeding
Pinus griffithii
112211-----1  "  "  "
Pinus koraiensis
3 -33------- 
Pinus massoniana
3 --3------- 
Pinus morrisonicola
1 ----111---(E)
Pinus pentaphylla
1 ----111---(E)
Pinus roxburghii
11--11-----1important for rust resistance breeding and for resin
Pinus sylvestris
1 --11------Siberian provenances little used outside USSR
Populus gambiae
1 22111----- 
Populus glauca
1 22111----- 
Populus nigra
1 -11------- 
Populus ciliata
2 -22------- 
Populus maximowiczii
1 -111------ 
Populus suaveolens
2 -22------- 
Populus spp. (Central and N.E. Asia)
2 -11-------important for further breeding
Populus yunnanensis
3 -33------- 
             
7. (b) South-East Asia            
Acacia nilotica
 1----1--2--for soil protection and range management in arid zone
Acacia senegal
 1----2--1--  "  "  "  "
Agathis spp.
1 111111-1-- 
Albizia falcataria
1 -111------important for pulp
Anthocephalus cadamba (syn. A. chinensis)
3 -333------proved difficult to grow in monoculture (India)
Araucaria cunninghamii
1 -1313---22 
Araucaria hunsteinii
1 -1113---22 
Azadirachta indica
11-1112--112medicinal value. Social forestry. Needs research on seed storage.
Bamboo spp.
111---1-----sporadic flowering habit may endanger regeneration
Bischofia javanica
3 -3333----- 
Bombax ceiba
1 --22-----1 
Cassia siamea
2 -1112---12social forestry.
Dalbergia latifolia
1 --1111-1-- 
Dalbergia sissoo
1 -111---2-2v. promising N. India and Pakistan
Dipterocarpus spp.
1 11--111---needs research on seed storage
Eucalyptus deglupta
1 -11121-122 
Eucalyptus urophylla
1 -111---113 
Gmelina arborea
12-111222211needs research on seed storage
Pinus kesiya (syn. khasya, insularis)
1 -2112--111 
Pinus merkusii/
merkusiana
1 -211-1-1-1 
Pterocarpus dalbergioides
1 -1111----- 
Santalum album
 1--11-----2high priority parts of S. India
Tectona grandis
1 -2111--121Research on seed needed
Toona ciliata
3 -322------ 
Toona serrata
3 -3-------- 

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