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Impacts of industrial forestry on genetic diversity of temperate forest trees

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Forest Genetics and Sustainability

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Domestication of forest tree species can be characterized as taking genotypes from their wild, undomesticated state through a series of sampling and selection stages, each with the potential of reducing genetic variation and in the same time resulting in genetically superior plantations (El-Kassaby and Namkoong 1994,1995). This domestication follows a systematic process by which the populations involved descend from large collections to screening and testing, and finally to advanced breeding with small sets of parents before incorporation in production populations (i.e., seed orchards).

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El-Kassaby, Y.A. (2000). Impacts of industrial forestry on genetic diversity of temperate forest trees. In: Mátyás, C. (eds) Forest Genetics and Sustainability. Forestry Sciences, vol 63. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1576-8_15

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