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FOREST GENETIC RESOURCES
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Note from the Editor

Forest Genetic Resources Information: up-dating of mailing list

Progress in the global programme for improved use of forest genetic resources (C. Palmberg)

Flowering and seed production of Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis (C.M. Gallegos)

A canker disease of Eucalyptus new to Africa (I.A.S. Gibson)

Data Sheets on species undergoing genetic impoverishment: Juniperus procera (J.B. Hall)

News from IUCN on ‘extinct’ species

Statement of forest gene resources: Australia

FAO/IBPGR project on genetic resources of arboreal fuelwood species for the improvement of rural living

Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter

FAO/UNEP project on the conservation of forest genetic resources: report on progress

Planned international provenance trials of Cedrela spp.

International provenance trials of Gmelina arborea

International provenance trials of Araucaria spp.

International provenance trials of Eucalyptus urophylla

International provenance trials of Eucalyptus microtheca

Seed collections by CSIRO, Australia

Seed collections by the Office of Forests, Papua New Guinea

Seed of Alnus nepalensis

Seed of Populus balsamifera

Leucaena leucocephala

Seed of Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis

Seed of frost hardy Eucalyptus species

Seed from Cuba

National Seed Coordination Centres

Australian tree seed

ISTA Technical Committees 1980–83

Recent articles and publications of interest

OECD publications on conservation and the environment

News on species-specific or regional newsletters