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Complex Trait Dissection in Forest Trees Using Molecular Markers

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The Impact of Plant Molecular Genetics

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Trees are the dominant plant life covering 4 billion hectares of the earth, and forests are vital plant communities that sustain a great diversity of life, as well as supply fuel, fiber and building materials for human needs (Laarman and Sedjo, 1992). Too often people’s current needs have overwhelmed nature’s ability to renew the forest. Currently, the loss of tropical forests and forest soils could account for approximately 20% of global annual CO2 emissions, while temperate forests are a net sink for CO2 (Wisniewski et al, 1993, Dixon et al, 1994). There is need for reforestation and sustainable forest management practices throughout the world, but especially in the low latitudes where 0.75 billion hectares have been cleared. All but a small portion (<10%) of this land has been degraded and abandoned, or put into marginal agriculture or under inefficient forest management. Conservation of forest resources requires a deeper understanding of the ecological processes that affect forests as well as improved systems for the intensive production of forest products on a shrinking land base.

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O’Malley, D.M. (1996). Complex Trait Dissection in Forest Trees Using Molecular Markers. In: Sobral, B.W.S. (eds) The Impact of Plant Molecular Genetics. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9855-8_3

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