The Nordic Group for the Management of Genetic Resources of Trees or whatever...
A Nordic forum for debate about forest genetic resources and forest reproductive materials can be reached via http://www.nordgen.org/forum/index.php,
2008
Information of GENECAR activities
till 2007 here Dag Lindgren stops
to keep a tally here. GENECAR takes
care about the nordic cooperation and could take over this historic page.
Genecar has increased its activities 2008 and 2009.
2007 Sweden Umeå 23-25 September
Application of DNA based
tools for genetic research, molecular breeding, management and monitoring of
genetic resources. There is also a
conference about
seed orchards at Umeå 26-28 September which allthough it is not formally
a Nordic meeting still serves a similar function
2006 no Nordic meeting.
2005 Russia (Syktyvkar, Komi) Status, monitoring and targets for breeding programs September 13-15, 2005. - Dag L collection. This meeting was not financed or sponsored by sources for Nordic cooperation or GeneCAR, but was still held because some people felt for going on with the tradition of Nordic meetings. There is a proceedings published and on the net. There was a starting up meeting for GENECAR (see below).
2004 Denmark Breeding for resistance against biotic and abiotic factors. Nordic Group for the Management of Genetic Resources of Trees. Meeting in Denmark, September 8 to 11th - 2004 No proceeding or link.
2003 Iceland
Forest
Genetic resources: their use and conservation
2002 Scotland Clonal Forestry - who are you kidding? The meeting proceedings was "published" as slide shows presented at the net.
2001 Finland Integrating tree breeding and forestry Proceedings: Haapanen, Matti & Mikola, Jouni. 2002. Integrating Tree Breeding and Forestry - Proceedings of the Nordic Group for Management of Genetic Resources of Trees, meeting at Mekrijärvi,Finland, March 23-27, 2001, Metsäntutkimuslaitoksen tiedonantoja 842. 112 p.
Annual Nordic forest geneticists/tree breeders meetings have been a tradition since the 50ies, starting with provenance research and seed procurement. The concept “Nordic” has been extended, first to include Scotland and later to the Baltic countries. It seemed a logic next step to approach Russia 2005. During the previous years all countries earlier involved were visited, so 2005 seemed the right moment to try something fresh!
The Nordic group reorganised from the beginning of 2005 as GeneCAR, which will be mainly focused on the activities of the Forest Research Institutes. The support to Nordic cooperation in Forest Genetics trebled 2005 compared with the situation till 2004, as earlier only annual meetings were supported. SNS (Nordic Forest Research Co-operation Committee) has granted funds for 4 projects according to a new project model CAR (Centre of Advanced Research). A link to GeneCAR is www.nordicgenecar.org. The formulations from SNS are here, Centre for Advanced Research in Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, (GeneCAR), had its first meeting in Biri, Norway 21.-22.6.2005. About 35 Nordic researchers were present to get acquainted with the CAR model and the possibilities for joint research under this concept. In the summary of the discussion on the net it was stressed that Nordic meetings are important. Such meetings should be organised for both research specialists and practitioners. Distribution of information is important, both by the homepage and by e-mail letters.
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