Tree Improvement Cooperative

North Carolina State University, College of Natural Resources

Research Profile

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  Pinus taeda

  
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  heritability

  
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  rust disease

  
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  clone

  
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  genetic variation

  
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  genotype

  
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  coniferous tree

  
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  breeding

  
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  stem

  
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  seedling

  

Publications

• 1.

  2013

  John Frampton; Fikret Isik; D.Michael Benson

  Genetic variation in resistance to Phytophthora cinnamomi in seedlings of two Turkish Abies species

  Tree Genetics and Genomes. 2013;9(1):53-63.

• 2.

  2012

  Jaime Zapata-Valenzuela; Fikret Isik; Christian Maltecca; Jill Wegrzyn; David Neale; Steve McKeand; Ross Whetten

  SNP markers trace familial linkages in a cloned population of Pinus taeda-prospects for genomic selection

  Tree Genetics and Genomes. 2012;8(6):1307-1318.

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  2012

  Michael J. Aspinwall; Steven E. McKeand; John S. King

  Carbon sequestration from 40 years of planting genetically improved loblolly pine across the southeast United States

  Forest Science. 2012;58(5):446-456.

Grants

• 1.

  Lewis Frampton; David Benson; Ross Whetten

  Developing Phytophthora-Resistant Fir Christmas Trees

  1/1/2013 - 12/31/2014

  Sponsor: North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDACS)

  Funding: $ 0

• 2.

  Lewis Frampton; Ross Whetten

  Development and Use of Genomic Tools to Improve Firs For Use as Christmas Trees

  9/1/2012 - 8/31/2017

  Sponsor: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)

  Funding: $ 0

• 3.

  Vincent Chiang; Hou-min Chang; Joel Ducoste; Fikret Isik; David Muddiman; Ronald Sederoff; Christopher Smith; Cranos Williams

  Modeling of Cellulose, Hemicellulose and Lignin-Carbohydrate Complex Formation and Regulation to Understand Plant Cell Wall Structure

  9/1/2011 - 11/30/2013

  Sponsor: Department of Energy (DOE)

  Funding: $ 0

Journals

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  Publications
• Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  15
• Forest Science
  11
• Silvae Genetica
  9
• Southern Journal of Applied Forestry
  9
• Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  7

Institutional Network

• Internal
  Shared Pub.
• Forest Biotech Program
  30
• Forestry & Environmental Resources
  26
• Industry Research Programs in Forestry
  10
• Tree Physiology
  6
• Entomology
  3

• External
  Shared Pub.
• USDA Forest Service
  13
• University of Florida
  11
• The University of British Columbia
  7
• Institute of Paper Science and Technology
  6
• Texas A and M University
  4
• University of Oxford
  4