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FOREST GENETIC RESOURCES
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Note from the Editor

Liquid pollination ni Pinus (G.B. Sweet et al.)

FAO publication on forestry and biotechnology

Australian Tree Seed Centre - An update on current programs and information on seed procurement for researchers (T. Vercoe & S. Midgley)

Kenya Forestry Seed Centre - A project concept and its contribution towards development (J. Albrecht & O. Oloo)

Plant Genetic Resources Abstract

Tanzania's National Tree Seed Programme (P. Rasmussen)

A statistical approach to determine sample size for moisture content determination in recalcitrant forest tree seed (B. Krishnapillay & M. Marzalina)

Testing of tropical and subtropical tree seed (ISTA project on handbook)

Improvement of germination of Terminalia ivorensis seeds (F. Corbineau & D. Côme)

International Workshop on Dalbergia

Areas of secondary vegetation in the Itajai Valley, Santa Catarina, Brazil, perspectives for management and conservation (P. Kageyama & Ademir Reis)

FAO's Forest Resources Assessment Study 1990

Recent advances in Dipterocarp research for sustainable forest management

Two new FAO publications on forest genetic resources

Provenances of Jaul (Alnus acuminata ssp. arguta (Schlect) Furlow in Costa Rica (O. Murillo Gamboa)

Early growth of Acacia crassicarpa in a seedling seed orchard at Melville Island, Australia (C.E. Harwood; M.V. Haines & E.R. Williams)

FAO/IBPGR Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter

FAO survey of national forest genetic resources

Eighth Session of the FAO Panel of Experts on Forest Gene Resources

Recent publications from the DANIDA Forest Seed Centre

Activities of the International Poplar Commission (IPC)

Forest Tree Improvement Project (FORTIP)

First international symoposium on seed procurement and legal regulations for forest reproductive material in tropical and subtropical countries

Recent literature of interest

Cover photo: Extraction of Acacia senegal at Centre National de Semences Forestières, Burkina Faso
(Photo: A. Thomsen)

 

Editors of this issue were:

Christel Palmberg-Lerche
Oudara Souvannavong
Agnete Thomsen

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