Expertise offered by Unit
Research interests of Unit officeholders
- progeny testing, breeding value estimation and demonstration of realized gain for all coniferous species planted commercially in Britain
- marker aided selection of Sitka spruce (Pica sitchensis) using DNA-markers linked to field phenotypic performance
- development of full-sibling family and clonal forestry for Sitka spruce in Britain: costs and benefits
- the impact of selection and breeding of Sitka spruce on construction timber properties
- douglas fir-breeding (provenances, progenies testing)
- coastal douglas-fir breeding and testing
- seed orchard research
- chloroplast DNA markers