Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2017
Better quality and higher productivity are the incentives for molecular genetics of forest trees. Ronald R. Sederoff is awarded the 2017 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for his breakthroughs in developing methods for gene discovery in conifer species and exploiting new breeding technologies for improved properties.
Professor Ronald R. Sederoff, North Carolina State University, USA, was one of the first scientists in the field of molecular genetics of forest trees. From the early 1990s he was involved in almost all the early studies on genetic modification of conifer trees, quantitative genetic studies and later also tree genomics.
Innovations for the forest industry
Ronald R. Sederoff has explained that the purpose of his work is to better understand the biology of forest trees and to use this information to accelerate breeding.
He established in 1988 the Forest Biotechnology Group at North Carolina State University to concentrate on the genetic basis of quantitative traits in trees.
Until then tree breeding had focused on understanding the inheritance of different traits, without directly caring about the actual genes that determined these traits. Ronald R. Sederoff was one of the first tree geneticists trying to link biological properties with genetic information in trees, so called genetic mapping, using the newest markers available to identify important properties like rust resistance, tree growth and wood quality. His group has been actively working on sequencing pine and American chestnut genomes.
His group has also specialized on the molecular basis of the structure of wood to investigate the biochemical and genetic basis of cell wall formation. Their focus is on the pathway for lignin biosynthesis and cell wall structural proteins.
Ronald R. Sederoff has provided the forestry sector with new methods and applications for tree breeding and valuable information to be used in the restoration of for example the American chestnut, which is today on the verge of extinction due to a devastating fungal disease.
Read more at: http://www.mwp.org/forest-molecular-genetics-to-improve-the-quality-of-tree…
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Von: Magnus Löf [mailto:Magnus.Lof@slu.se]
Gesendet: Freitag, 10. März 2017 09:51
An: div1(a)lists.iufro.org
Betreff: IUFRO Forest Restoration Conference in Lund, Sweden Sept. - deadline for abstracts May 1
Dear sir,
Attached is the second circular with information of our upcoming conference in Lund. Invited speakers, and the preliminary program is included.
Deadline for abstracts is May 1 (link in the attached file or at the web-page).
See also the conference web-page (https://reg.akademikonferens.se/restoringforest2017)
With kindest regards,
Magnus Löf
Dear Colleagues of IUFRO Div2 and 2.09.02 lists,
I'm forwarding you the following question from Mariano Toribio and Paloma Moncaleán about any active legislation for micropropagation of forest tree species in your country. Please answer directly to Mariano and Paloma.
Kind Regards,
Jean-François Trontin
IUFRO2.09.02 Coordinator
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Dear colleagues,
If you are aware of legislation in your country on the production of plants of forest species by micropropagation (both by organogenesis and somatic embryogenesis) and commercialization of this type of clonal plant material, we would appreciate very much receiving such information.
Particularly we are interested in knowing if there are norms regulating the maximum number of multiplication cycles that are allowed in the schemes of production.
Kind regards,
Mariano Toribio [ mariano.toribio(a)madrid.org ]
Paloma Moncaleán [ pmoncalean(a)neiker.eus ]
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Von: Jodie Krakowski [mailto:Jodie.Krakowski@gov.ab.ca]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 5. März 2017 16:43
Betreff: Forest Genetics 2017: conference/professional development
http://forestgenetics2017.ca/
June 26-29 2017, optional post-conference field trips June 30
Forest genetics practitioners and researchers are invited to attend the Forest Genetics 2017 conference at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, June 26th-29th, 2017. This year’s conference theme is “Forest Health and Productivity in Changing Environments.”
The hosting organizations for this conference are <http://cfga-acgf.com/> CFGA and <http://www.fsl.orst.edu/wfga/> WFGA, which represent academics, researchers, tree breeders, seed biologists, students and forestry practitioners involved in genetics and tree breeding in Canada and western North America. Their joint, biennial conference series provides a forum for sharing research results, technology transfer, and broadening the scope of their activities to cater for emerging economic and environmental challenges.
Dear Colleagues!
We kindly inform you that AForGeN2017 has been announced.
The 6th annual AFoRGeN meeting will be held on June 15-17, 2017 at the
Villa Welsperg in the Val Canali, Trentino, Italy.
The first announcement is uploaded on the AForGen homepage:
www.aforgen.org
Best wishes
Maria Höhn
coordinator
Division 2.04.11.
Colleagues,
We hope to compile information on orphaned data for tropical forests, including inventory and plot data, that are in danger of being lost. Many projects over the years have generated a lot of tropical forest data. But the information is scattered among different institutions and people, some still only on paper, some digitized but in older formats.
TROPIS and ATROFI-UK are two previous databases that compiled metadata on forest plots and inventories. The data for certain plots are available at www.forestplots.net and its associated networks. But other plots and inventories still need attention, re-discovery even. We would like to compile information on datasets that should be digitized or transformed to an up-to-date digital format. The goal is firstly to make metadata on these datasets available on a publicly accessible website, and then to try to secure the data itself by pushing for appropriate curation with open-access availability.
These legacy datasets are invaluable for understanding how tropical forests change through time, including the cumulative impacts of changes in land use and climate, and changes in patterns of biodiversity and carbon storage. The past can help inform the future.
If you know of any such orphaned databases for tropical forests, please send a message to: Gillian Petrokofsky gillian.petrokofsky(a)zoo.ox.ac.uk or Sheila Ward sheila.emily.ward(a)gmail.com. Please pass this message on to anyone who might be interested.
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Regards,
Sheila Ward
Coordinator, IUFRO 1.02.04
Gillian Petrokovsky
Deputy Coordinator, IUFRO 9.01.01
