[IUFRO WP 2.09.02]IMPORTAN INFORMATION PUBLICATION OF ABSTRACTS AND EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

Dear colleagues, Dear Participants of the 7th IUFRO 2.09.02 conference in Harbin (China). We hope you enjoyed the scientific and social programme of the conference and that you had a safe journey back. We were delighted to welcome you in Harbin, and it was more than timely to get back to major networking activity in our scientific community. We are confident that this event will contribute to foster opportunities for both formal and unformal collaborations and we look forward to seeing you again no later than at our next 8th IUFRO 2.09.02 conference to be held in Savonlinna (Finland) 2028. I would like to share with you some information regarding the publication of the papers presented at our last IUFRO Working Party 2.09.02 meeting. There will be two publication options: 1.-Original research papers can be submitted for publication in the Journal of Forestry Research (https://link.springer.com/journal/11676) as mentioned by Dr. Shen during the conference. These papers will be considered for publication in a special issue/volume. Please, check the instructions in the web of the journal. 2.-Abstracts and extended abstracts will be published online, as has traditionally been the case. For the option 2, 2e will accept as usual i) extended abstracts, and updated versions of iii) short abstracts. Deadline To be included in the Proceedings, manuscript must be submitted in English by March 31, 2027 to pmoncalean@neiker.eus<mailto:pmoncalean@neiker.eus> with cc to: jcanhoto@uc.pt<mailto:jcanhoto@uc.pt> and Wangjh@caf.ac.cn<mailto:Wangjh@caf.ac.cn>. A submission receipt will be provided by Email. Please inquire if any deadline extension is needed. Review process Abstract and extended abstract will be checked by one member of the Editorial Committee for quality-science standard, minor editing, and compliance with the guideline for submission. Authors are solely responsible for the technical details of the paper. Extensive language editing by reviewers is excluded. It is the authors' responsibility to submit a well-written article in suitable English. We suggest careful proofread of the English before submission. Paper acceptance Manuscript will be accepted with reduced delay (no or minor revision) or upon reception of any necessary significant revision. Guideline for submission Please strictly refer to the following short guideline for preparing your manuscript: General format Paper size A4 Margins 2.5 cm on all four sides. General text format Times New Roman 11 pt. Single spaced, fully justified. Standard rules Measurement units should be metric Latin scientific names should be italicised Paper sections Section 1 Title Bold text. Example Epigenetic memory of sensed temperatures during somatic embryo maturation in young maritime pine trees Section 2 Author list Normal text. Author names fully written and separated by commas. [First name Middle initials Last (family) name] Example Jean-François Trontin1§, Mamadou D. Sow2£, Alain Delaunay2, Inês Modesto3, Caroline Teyssier4, Isabelle Reymond1, Francis Canlet5, Nathalie Boizot4, Claire Le Metté4, Audrey Gibert2, Cristian Chaparro6, Christian Daviaud7, Jörg Tost7, Celia Miguel3, Marie-Anne Lelu-Walter4, Stéphane Maury2 Section 3 Authors' affiliation Normal text. Provide a numbered list of affiliations (Arabic superscript numerals) linking authors' names and affiliations. Back to line for each affiliation. [Lab/Team/Unit, University/Institute/organisation, Department, Postal code and City, Country] Provide under the list of affiliations any supplementary information (e.g., Present address, Email of corresponding author(s)) linked with authors' names (using superscript symbols) Example 1BioForBois, FCBA, IBC Department, 33610 Cestas, France. 2LBLGC, University of Orléans, INRAE, EA 1207 USC 1328, 45067 Orléans, France. 3BioISI, University of Lisboa, Faculty of Science, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal. 4BioForA, INRAE, ONF, UMR 0588, 45075 Orléans, France. 5Sylviculture Avancée, FCBA, RFT Department, 33610 Cestas, France. 6IHPE, University of Perpignan, UMR 5244, 66100 Perpignan, France. 7LEE, CEA, CNRGH, 91057 Evry, France. §Corresponding author: jean-francois.trontin@inrae.fr<mailto:jean-francois.trontin@inrae.fr> Present address: BEF, INRAE, UR 1138, 54280 Champenoux, France. £Present address: GDEC, INRAE, UMR 1095, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. Section 4 Abstract Full paper: 350 words max. Extended abstract and abstract: not needed Section 5 Keywords Provide up to 6 keywords that are not in the title Section 6 Body text Full papers: no page limits (single-space pages). Sections: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion (or Results and Discussion). Extended abstracts: up to 5 single-space pages (but flexible if needed) Sections: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion, short conclusion (100 words max). Short abstracts: 1 single-space page. Section 6 Tables Tables and corresponding legends should be referenced in text and placed at the appropriate location (preferably using the Table feature of Word). Use the following basic format (bold headers, only horizontal lines): Table X. Legend Title 1 Title 2 Title 3 Subtitle Subtitle Notes: Section 6 Figures Figures should be prepared with an adequate editor (e.g., PowerPoint), referenced in text and embedded at the appropriate location as high-quality pictures or charts. The legend must be placed below figure with the following format: Figure X. Legend. Section 7 Acknowledgements Acknowledge here any persons, technical facilities and funding sources that supported the work. Section 8 References Use the following format: Last (family) name, space, first name initials without period (.). The multiple authors are separated by comma (,) followed by publication year in parenthesis, and title. Then indicate the Journal (official abbreviation), volume and pages. When available, Indicate the doi, or alternatively the link where the reference can be found. Examples Aitken J, Horgan KJ, Thorpe TA (1981) Influence of explant selection on the shoot-forming capacity of juvenile tissue of Pinus radiata. Can J For Res 11:112-117. https://doi.org/10.1139/x81-015 Pullman GS, Bucalo K (2011) Pine somatic embryogenesis using zygotic embryos as explants. In: Thorpe T, Yeung E (eds) Plant embryo culture: methods and protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, Humana Press, Totowa, vol 710, pp. 267-291. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61737-988-8_19 Thorpe TA, Yeung EC (eds) (2011) Plant embryo culture: methods and protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, Humana Press, Totowa, vol 710. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61737-988-8 Looking forward to receiving your contribution! We will include in the Proceedings a Photo Gallery. You are very welcome to add your nice photos taken during the conference scientific & social programmes. Best wishes, Paloma Moncaleán, Jorge Canhoto and Junjui Wang On behalf of the Editorial Committee of the Conference Proceedings 7th IUFRO 2.09.02 Conference, Harbin, China. Paloma Moncaleán, PhD. 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