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FOREST GENETIC RESOURCES
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Note from the Editor

International procurement and exchange of tree breeding material (M.D. Wilcox)

New IUFRO Working Group on Casuarina

Quantified standards for regional clonal seed orchards (V. Koski)

IUFRO Meeting on Seed and Cone Insects

20th ISTA Congress

The computerised seed store record system of the CSIRO Tree Seed Centre, Australia (L.D. Wolf and J.W. Turnbull)

Botanical revisions of Cedrela and Swietenia

The Mexican Stone Pines (Pinyons) of “the cembroides” group (M.F. Passini)

Natural distribution of Pinus caribaea Morelet

Eucalypt seed and botanical collections in Papua (J.C. Doran and D.J. Skelton)

Eucalypt seed from Queensland, Australia

Seed from Peru

Acacia mangium seed collections for international provenance trials (J.C. Dorand and D.J. Skelton)

International provenance trials of Pinus patula

Poplar material from China

Seed production of Pinus caribaea

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

Membership of the FAO Panel of Experts on Forest Gene Resources

Recent Circular Letters from DANIDA Forest Seed Centre

Recommendations of the FAO/UNEP/IBPGR Meeting on Crop Genetic Resources

Consultation proceedings available

New information on existing forest resources

Recent articles and publications of interest

New publications from FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division

Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter

News on species-specific or regional Newsletters