Summary
Poplar culture: a collaborative effort from clone to mill. Conference Handbook to the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Poplar Council of Canada. September 16-21, 2007. Rivière-du-Loup et Québec, Canada. 79 p.
Forêt Québec, one of the sectors within the ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec, has the mandate of administering the various facets of sustainably managing Québec’s public forests, and of contributing to the development of the forest products industry and private woodlots. Within this broad framework, the mission of the Direction de la recherche forestière (DRF) is to participate in improving forest practices in Québec by undertaking research and development projects in diverse fi elds and by ensuring the transfer of know-how to practising foresters.
The Poplar Council of Canada (PCC) is a national non-profi t organization committed to the wise use, conservation, and sustainable management of Canada’s poplar resources. PCC, fi rst established in 1977, has members from industry, wood lot owners, universities, research establishments, and provincial and federal governments. The principal objective of the CPC/PCC 2007 meeting is to share advances in poplar research in Canada and other countries, and to present various aspects of poplar culture with a number of cases from the Témiscouata area. This year’s theme, “Poplar Culture: a Collaborative Effort from Clone to Mill”, emphasizes the synergy achieved from cooperative efforts shared among poplar growers in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region.
In 1998, under the leadership of Hervé Gagnon (DRF) with the collaboration of the Direction régionale des forêts du Bas-Saint-Laurent and three organisms involved with poplar culture, a new research project was initiated to evaluate poplar varieties obtained from breeding for the region. Since the beginning, funding was provided through the Programme de mise en valeur des ressources du milieu forestier (Volet 1). Ten years later, we have the opportunity to visit some plantations established in the Témiscouata area, where over 500 trees were selected in 2006 with in the hybrid progenies planted in Packington. The best ones will eventually replace the old clones planted in the area, and new parent trees will also be selected from the introduced species collections for future breeding.
File
Sector(s):
Forests
Categorie(s):
Conference and Presentation
Theme(s):
Forest Genetics, Forestry Research, Forests
Author(s)
Direction de la recherche forestière, Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune
Year of publication :
2007
Format :
ISBN
978-2-550-50797-0
Keywords :
Populus, amélioration génétique des arbres, forest tree improvement, fast growing species, annual meeting, poplar, Populus, Populus xjackii, Populus balsamifera, Populus deltoides, poplar, natural hybridization, asymmetry, SNP markers, forest tree improvement, balsam poplar, Eastern cottonwood, amélioration génétique des arbres, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, genetic improvement, controlled crosses, clone banks, black spruce, jack pine, production de semences et de plants, hybrid poplar, multi-criteria selection, genetic variation, carbon allocation, growth models, seeds and forest seedlings production, molecular ecology, exotic tree species, gene flow, poplar, larch, Larix, Populus, Septoria canker resistance, screening, risk management, hybrid poplar plantation, Septoria musiva, Mycosphaerella populorum,
