OSU - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference
In cooperation with the Southern Forest Tree Improvement Committee, Oklahoma State University was pleased to host the 27th Biennial Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference (SFTIC). The North American Quantitative Forest Genetics Group met on the OSU campus prior to the SFTIC meeting.
For more than 50 years, professional foresters, researchers, managers, educators, and technical foresters involved with all aspects of tree improvement and forest productivity have been attending the SFTIC conferences. The 2003 Conference had as its theme "Tree Improvement and Forest Sustainability" and again provided an outstanding forum for discussion of forest genetics and tree improvement. There were a total of 40 contributed presentations, two invited presentations, and 13 posters. There were 94 registered participants.
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Loblolly Pine Karyotype Using FISH and DAPI Positive Banding
(2003)A loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) karyotype has been developed based on fluorescent insitu hybridization (FISH) using cyto-molecular landmarks including plant telomere repeat, 18S-28S rDNA and 5S rDNA probes and DAPI positive ... -
Molecular Pathology of Pitch Canker Disease
(2003)The inciting agent of pitch canker disease in Pinus species is the necrotrophic fungal pathogen Fusarium circinatum (teleomorph Gibberella circinata). Pitch canker disease has been identified in the southeastern United ... -
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Functional Genomics Pipeline in Loblolly Pine and Eastern Cottonwood
(2003)Advances in transformation technology allow functional genomics techniques that are commonly applied to Arabidopsis thaliana to be considered for tree species. ArborGen is applying the principles of high throughput functional ... -
Evaluation of an Open-Nucleus Model for Forest Tree Breeding
(2003)Open-nucleus breeding was evaluated by stochastic simulation. Methodology was developed for unrestricted migration rate between two tiers (main and elite). Genetic progress in the breeding population was iteratively maximized ... -
Field Selection of American Sweetgum Transformed for Herbicide Resistance
(2003)One American sweetgum clone from an open-pollinated parent was transformed with Agrobacterium tumefaciens containing the gene for acetolactate synthase (ALS), and regenerated through organogenesis. Seventy independently ... -
Characterization of a Bacterial Contaminant in Loblolly Pine Tissue Culture
(2003)Bacterial contamination of immature seed explants can decrease the efficiency in initiating and establishing pine embryogenic cultures. A type of contaminant commonly observed surrounding the megagametophyte explant of ... -
Progress with American Chestnut Somatic Embryogenesis
(2003)American chestnut (Castanea dentata), once the dominant forest species of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States, was devastated during the early twentieth century by the introduction of the chestnut blight ... -
Geographic Information Systems(GIS) and Virtual Reality Models (VRM) to Improve the Analysis of Genetic and Silvicultural Trials
(2003)GIS systems have become core tools for mapping needs in forestry. During the last decade software platforms have expanded the basic capabilities of data storage and retrieval in map formats. Complex overlay procedures, ... -
Microprojectile-Mediated Genetic Transformation of Embryogenic Sweetgum Cultures
(2003)With its rapid biomass accumulation, sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) may be particularly suitable for phytoremediation purposes, especially if it can be engineered with genes that enhance tolerance and/or accumulation ... -
Evaluation of the Inheritance of Tip Moth Susceptibility Using Pine Hybrids Planted in Southeast Mississippi
(2003)Nineteen families of susceptible and resistant pine parent species and their interspecific hybrid progenies were quantitatively assessed for Nantucket pine tip moth (Rhyacionia frustrana Comstock) damage in a study in ... -
Rooting Cuttings of Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra L.)
(2003)Several techniques have been used experimentally to vegetatively propagate northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.), including: 1) rooting juvenile softwood cuttings in intermittent mist, 2) rooting shoots originating from ... -
USDA Forest Service Forest Health Protection Resistance Screening Center
(2003)The Resistance Screening Center (RSC) is operated by the Forest Health Protection unit of the USDA Forest Service, Southern Region, State and Private Forestry. The Center is located at the Bent Creek Experimental Forest ... -
High Efficiency Transformation of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) Using Green Fluorescent Protein as a Vital Screenable Marker
(2003)An engineered green fluorescent protein (m-gfp5-ER) gene under the control of the 35S Cauliflower Mosaic Virus promoter was used to develop a facile and rapid loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) transformation system via ... -
Volume Gains of Rooted Loblolly Pine Clones at Age 10 in Florida and Alabama
(2003)An estimate of the growth potential of clonal lines produced from elite crosses compared to trees grown from seed is needed to justify clonal forestry programs. A series of age 10 loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) rooted ... -
Antibiotics Effects on the Elimination of Agrobacterium tumefaciens from Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) Zygotic Embryo Explants and on Transgenic Plant Regeneration
(2003)Three antibiotics were evaluated for their effects on the elimination of Agrobacterium tumefaciens during the genetic transformation of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) using mature zygotic embryos as targets. Agrobacterium ... -
Fourth-Year Results from a Clonal Test of Loblolly Pine
(2003)In November and December 1998, two experimental plantings were established using rooted cuttings from 450 clones of eight unrelated full-sib families of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Clones from four of the families (282 ...
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