tree improvement and forest genetic resources @Forest_Research
Joined December 2015
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Apply by tomorrow 15 Jan before the rather peculiar time of 1545 UTC (UK time)
🌲🧬DO YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME GENETIC GAIN?!?💪🌳
If so, then apply for this job in my team @Forest_Research by 15 Jan to help in the day-to-day running of tree improvement programmes and applied research projects.
Forest Genetics Operations Manager civilservicejobs.service.gov…
🌲🧬DO YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME GENETIC GAIN?!?💪🌳
If so, then apply for this job in my team @Forest_Research by 15 Jan to help in the day-to-day running of tree improvement programmes and applied research projects.
Forest Genetics Operations Manager civilservicejobs.service.gov…
We are marking up forward-selected Douglas firs in "US85" progeny tests in Mortimer forest and collecting cambium samples for genotyping
One of the reasons I prefer the %consumption imported formulation... the scale of ambition to be 4th or 5th would be unbelievable and we'd still be the "nth largest net importer"
The UK is back as the world's second-largest net importer of forest products.
Only China imported more timber (as a net value) in the 2023.
🔗forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2…
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At Northern Research Station we've sown 10 provenances of Scots pine from across Europe (see map)🌲
So far they're growing well!
After another growing season they'll be planted at two multispecies common gardens in the UK as part of a wider European network @OptFORESTS
Controlled (polymix) pollination of Scots pine - very efficient this year in @ForestryEngland's well managed seed orchard @ForestProtectUK (though it's only about 50 metres into England)
Rapid flowering in one year from a couple of spruce grafts - both with fairly precarious looking unions
This is the first Sitka spruce graft from the below multi-provenance stiffness (modulus of elasticity) selection campaign to flower on the nursery. This tree's parents are/were from Naden Harbour, Haida Gwaai
Selecting candidate 'plus trees' in a range-wide @IUFRO provenance trial of Sitka spruce today in northern 🏴. In January, these trees will be felled, assessed for acoustic velocity and the best ones will be cloned to build up an elite population for stiffness @Forest_Research
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This #PlantHealthWeek our Head of Research, Jo Clark provides an update on the Living Ash Project following 10 yrs of research to restore #ash:
livingashproject.org.uk/the-…
@DefraGovUK #NPHW #IPHD @APHAgovuk @ForestryComm @niabgroup @Forest_Research @kewgardens @plantchief
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Our first internship diary comes from Eve, whose internship @Forest_Research involved learning lots of fieldwork skills and developing her mathematical modelling and R-coding knowledge. tinyurl.com/y5xa8m87
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🔴 IEFC - Annual General Assembly - 2024 and IEFC's 25th Anniversary🎉.
Join us in #Scotland 🗓️4-5 June 2024
📢Registration: bit.ly/3VnS13l
📌Tentative Agenda: bit.ly/3P9xnzE
➡️More information: bit.ly/49IuUEW
#plantedforests @Forest_Research
Our "temporary storage shed for cones" AKA the pagoda, immortalised in FC Bulletin 83 (1992) is being retired after ~50(?) years of service and replaced with a new one. £millions of genetic gains have passed through it's arches
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Native Scots pine cone collection is in the bag (quite literally) for a series of new provenance trials to assess local adaption and adaptability. Seedlings will be sown this spring in collaboration with @UK_CEH and planted out at trial sites after two growing seasons. 🌲1/2
Sitka spruce scion collection today from this 60 yr old clone bank.. past regrafting efforts were prioritised based on a selection index that +growth and +straightness breeding values while stabilising density, back to collect from high ranking density clones while we still can
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We are hiring!
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Talk to @DrMeenu_bhati if you'd like to follow her steps and know her experience and success in securing a fellowship.
1000 grafts of 51 forward-selected Scots pines (based on Dothistroma response, form and growth) growing in native provenance-progeny trials @ForestProtectUK
