It has been developed in the Department of Forest Genetics with the advice of Prof. Sara von Arnold, a method for regenerating Pinus sylvestris by somatic embryogenesis. It was possible to get from 5 to 1500 mature embryos for 77 genotypes out of 88, belonging to 19 out of 20 families tested.
Now I am working with Pinus maximartinezii (a Mexican and endangered species) in order to use the method developed for Pinus sylvestris. Later I will work with elite material from timber pine trees (there are around 60 pine species in Mexico).
We have problems not with the rotation time period, the problem is that we do not have practices for forest management. We are almost at the begining. We have to learn how to harvest the forest.
Carlos Ramirez Serrano,
Departamento de Botanica y Zoologia
CUCBA, Universidad de Guadalajara
AP. 139,
45110 Zapopan Jalisco
MEXICO
TEL&FAX: +52 36 82 00 03
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