Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0453704
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Unravelling the relationship between growth and wood properties in temperate eucalypts. The most important biological traits affecting profit in eucalypt plantations grown for pulpwood are growth, wood density and pulp yield. Shrinkage and collapse are important for timber production. Little information is available on the size and direction of the correlations between these traits, yet they are important in determining selection response in breeding as well as environmental impacts on pulp and sawlog yield. The collaborating growers and breeders have brought together a unique base of Eucalyptus globulus and E. nitens field trials that will allow an integrated quantitative and molecular genetic study of the interrelationships amongst these key profit traits.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 12-2004
End Date: 12-2009
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $330,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Quantitative Genetics | Tree Improvement (Selection, Breeding And Genetic Engineering) | Genome Structure | Genetics |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Hardwood plantations | Pulp and paper | Hardwood sawing and veneer
