Project Meliaceae
Genetic Resources: Genetic Trials
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purpose is to improve communication among all groups and individuals
that are involved with these species. We need your help! If you have a
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Development of Domestication Strategies for Commercially Important
Species of Meliaceae
Tree Improvement and Genetic Resources Program
Australian Tree Seed Centre
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
http://www.ffp.csiro.au/tigr/atscmain/whatwedo/projects/melia/melia.htm
Link verified 2 August 2004
Carlos Navarro and Marvin Hernández. Evaluación
de la diversidad genética de especies tropicales de importancia
económica y ecológica en Centro America y el Caribe,
implicaciones para la conservación, la utilización
sostenible y el manejo. IUFRO Division 6 Meeting: Social, Economic,
Information And Policy Sciences Collaboration And Partnership In
Forestry Valdivia – Chile. November 11 – 17 2002.
Presentation abstract available
http://iufro.boku.ac.at/iufro/iufronet/d6/wu60304/ponencias/tema3/navarroc.html
Link verified 2 August 2004
Wightman, KE, Ward SE, Haggar, JP, Santiago, BR, and JP Cornelius. The
relationship between growth and Hypsipyla grandella attack and
potential genetic gain for
big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) in the Yucatan Peninsula of
Mexico
(in preparation).
Cornelius, JP; Hernandez, GS; Santiago, BR, Wightman, KE (eds). 2001.
Avances recientes en la domesticación de caoba y cedro: Taller
celebrado en
el Campo Experimental (INIFAP) San Felipe Bacalar, 6-8 de noviembre de
2001.
[Recent advances in the domestication of mahogany and Spanish cedar]
CATIE,
Turrialba, Costa Rica, 62 pp. (see also Revista Forestal
Centroamericana,
36:55-5, available at http://www.catie.ac.cr/informacion/rfca/ for
summary
of event and interview).
Ward, SE, Wightman, KE, Haggar JP, and BR. Santiago. 2000. Preliminary
results from Swietenia macrophylla genetic trials in the Yucatan,
Mexico. International Symposium on Modeling and Experimental Research
on Genetic Processes in Tropical and Temperate Forest, Kourou, French
Guiana.
Wightman, KE, Ward S, Haggar J, and Santiago BR. (2001). Mejoramiento
genético de Caoba (Swietenia macrophylla King) y Cedro (Cedrela
odorata) en la península de Yucatán. Primer Congreso
Nacional de Reforestación, PRONARE,
Texcoco, México, 8-10 Noviembre, 2000. 2:5 del Memoria en
CD.
Wightman, KE. 2002. Resumen y resultados de actividades en el Ejido
Noh-Bec. Ensayo de progenies y area semilliera. [Summary and results of
activities in the Noh-Bec community. Progeny trials and natural seed
stand.], 45 pp.
Cornelius, JP. Ward, SE. and Wightman KE. 1999. 2000, 2001.
Domestication of Mahogany and Spanish Cedar in the Yucatan Peninsula of
Mexico. In: Annual Report to the Research and Scientific Exchange
Division of the US Department of Agriculture.] apprx. 35 pp each year.