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Breeding strategies for forest trees: Concepts and challenges
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: T White --- School of Forest Resources and Conservation, U.S.A.This paper describes some recent developments that affect the way forest geneticists think about breeding strategies for forest trees. The topics are grouped into several categories: (1) General Concepts; (2) Breeding Population Size; (3) Breeding Population Structure; (4) Management of... -
Forest and fibre genomics: biotechnology tools for applied tree improvement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: A Myburg J Bradfield E Cowley N Creux M de Castro T-L Hatherell M Mphahlele M O'Neill M Ranik L Solomon M Victor H Zhou G Galloway T Horsley N Jones T Stanger A Bayley N Edwards B JanseEucalyptus tree breeders and geneticists stand to benefit tremendously from a recently announced effort to produce the first complete genome sequence for a eucalypt tree by 2010. A milestone for eucalypt research, the project will facilitate the development of new... -
Perspectives on genome mapping and marker-assisted breeding of eucalypts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: D GrattapagliaIn Eucalyptus and forest tree breeding in general, the generalised application of molecular markers for directional selection is still an unfulfilled promise. In highly heterogeneous eucalypts, while conventional quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping has revealed useful markers that are currently... -
Anaesthetic genetics and genomics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: E Welch --- ,Genetic variations have always been implicated in interindividual reactions to various pharmaceutical agents. Some common genetically determined anaesthetic conditions, such as malignant hyperthermia, “scoline apnoea”, “halothane hepatitis” and porphyria, are fairly well described, and the genetic differences in enzyme, receptor... -
Fungal genomes enhance our understanding of the pathogens affecting trees cultivated in Southern Hemisphere plantations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: MPA Coetzee --- , South Africa QC Santana --- , South Africa ET Steenkamp --- , South Africa BD Wingfield --- , South Africa MJ Wingfield --- , South AfricaForest pathogens are a major cause of forest disturbances and they have a significant economic impact on commercial forestry. Genomics is an important technology now available for studies concerning tree health, enabling researchers to better understand pathosystems and potentially to...