Faculty of Forestry Sciences, the whole national faculty organisation

Umeå Campus, the faculty facilities at Umeå

Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology , Version planned to replace the old, Umeå, Sweden

Umeå Plant Science Center

    Links to some websites Dag Lindgren finds relevant and interesting

    List of links to organisations dealing with Forest Tree Breeding and Forest Genetic Research

    Swedish Forest Agency - Skogsstyrelsen

    The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden - SkogForsk, Sweden.

    Projekt SkogsSverige - Joint Swedish forestry

    Föreningen skogsträdsförädling  (Association of Forest tree breeding)

    Forskarskolan genetik och förädling

    IUFRO 2.04.02 Breeding theory and progeny testing - a newsletter, a forum, announcement about meetings and courses.

    IUFRO WP 2.09.01 Seed Orchards (IUFRO homepage).Major web site of the Seed Orchard Working Party.

    Dendrome - Tree genetics site. Meetings, jobs, list of forest geneticists, Newsletter which stopped to work some years ago.

    Forest Genetics & Tree Breeding - METLA, Finland, informative but not well updated start point for forest genetic web browsing

    GeneCAR - continues the tradition with Nordic research cooperation and annual meetings.

    BIOME - A place where sites of interest for health and life sciences  (including forest genetics) can be found. The links are described and reviewed to constrain the number of links.

    The Swedish Institute - Among other information fact sheets about Sweden from the Swedish Institute (suitable background for foreign visitors)!

    The Swedish Research School for Forest genetics and Breeding - run from forest genetics and plant physiology, SLU

    FAO runs electronic conferences at a "Forum" on biotech, mainly GMO, including forestry, http://www.fao.org/biotech/forum.asp

    A website for Nicholson: www.cnr.ncsu.edu/nicholson Nicholson supports PHD scholarships and visits between Sweden and NCSU at Raleigh in Forestry, particular Forest Genetics.

    News and Views. In addition to scientific articles, Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research contains a section with short and popularized articles covering Nordic forest research and forestry:, which are available on the net.

    Forest Genetic Council in British Columbia - Some documents I find relevant for different aspects on tree breeding

    Gene conservation in the Nordic Countries including forestry

    Nordgen - skog: tidigare Nordiska Skogsbrukets Frö och Plantråd -

    SNS (Body for Nordic Forest Research)

    http://www.sasnet.lu.se/ Link to connection between Sweden and south Asia,

    Department of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden (earlier there was another forest genetic group in Sweden there, but it has vanished)

    Forest Genetic Field Trials - Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå, Sweden

    Dag Lindgren - Personal home page

    About agroforestry - but they use trees also

     Wikipedia - A a free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Western Forest Genetics Association   - North American association which arranges regular meetings, list of meetings.
 
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Symposia:
Proceedings available: Aronen, Tuija, Nikkanen, Teijo & Tynkkynen, Tiina (eds.). 2009. Vegetative propagation of conifers for enhancing landscaping and tree breeding.. Working Papers of the Finnish Forest Research Institute 114. 80 s. ISBN 978-951-40-2154-1:  http://www.metla.fi/julkaisut/workingpapers/2009/mwp114.htm
 
The Proceedings of  the Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conferences  can be found on-line at http://www.rngr.net/Publications/sftic
 

The proceedings from the 2004 IUFRO div 2 meeting in Charleston

 

    Homepages of  Dag Lindgren's former research student:  Kyu-Suk Kang - nice pictures; Graduated early June 2001 and are not at Umeå any more, but because of stiffness in our web-management their hompages are still there and as they are rather nice I do not remove the link until the system does!

Last updated 09-10-09