Vegetative propagation of conifers for enhancing landscaping and tree breeding.

Authors: Aronen, Tuija, Nikkanen, Teijo & Tynkkynen, Tiina (eds.)

Pages: 80

Bibliographic information

The Nordic meeting “Vegetative propagation of conifers for enhancing landscaping and tree breeding” was held at Punkaharju, Finland, in September 10-11th , 2008. The aim of the meeting was to share ideas and experiences among researchers, tree breeders, and commercial plant producers /nurseries, together with customers acting in landscaping or in forestry on the potentials and challenges in vegetative propagation of the Nordic conifers. There were altogether 54 registrated participants representing different stakeholders from six European countries.The meeting was hosted by Metla - Finnish Forest Research Institute, Punkaharju Research Unit, and kindly supported by GENECAR, Nordic Centre of Advanced Research in Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, and The Foundation for Forest Tree Breeding in Finland. The information presented by the speakers during the meeting sessions, as well as by some of the posters is collected into this proceedings publication in the form of extended abstracts. The topics discussed are the following: I) Tree breeding framework, II) Landscaping framework, III) Technical issues – grafting and rooting of cuttings, and IV) Technical issues – potentials of tissue culture, and V) Collaboration and future sights containing also information on funding possibilities. In addition, the outcome of the group discussions focusing on the topics “How to facilitate the use of conifers as ornamentals?” and “Development of vegetative propagation techniques” is shortly reviewed.

conifer, clonal testing, grafting, ornamental, rooted cuttings, tissue culture, tree breeding, vegetative propagation

All papers in one file

Vegetative propagation of conifers for enhancing landscaping and tree breeding. Proceedings of the Nordic meeting held in September 10th-11th 2008 at Punkaharju, Finland (pdf, size 6173 kb)

Papers in separate files

Contents and preface (pdf, size 296 kb)

Tree breeding framework

A way to utilise the advantages of clonal forestry for Norway spruce? (pdf, size 75 kb)
Dag Lindgren
Clones in Finnish tree breeding (pdf, size 152 kb)
Matti Haapanen
Field behaviour of Scots pine cuttings compared to seedlings (pdf, size 104 kb)
Anna-Maija Niskanen, Niina Stenvall, Anne Pakkanen & Pertti Pulkkinen

Landscaping framework

Conifers in landscaping – Potentials and problems (pdf, size 346 kb)
Juha Raisio
Hardy options for landscaping – domesticated exotics and special forms of Nordic conifers (pdf, size 1592 kb)
Teijo Nikkanen
Investigation of conifers mutation forms in Latvia and the possibilities in selecting new sorts (pdf, size 442 kb)
Janis Zilins, Janis Lapse & Andrejs Svilans

Technical issues – grafting and rooting of cuttings

Chip-budding and apical crafting – breeders’ tools (pdf, size 1287 kb)
Jörgen Hajek
Successes and failures in forest tree cutting production in Finland (pdf, size 195 kb)
Jouni Mikola
Joint Scots pine cutting propagation project Finland-Latvia-Sweden (pdf, size 83 kb)
Karl-Anders Högberg
Rooting Nordmann fir cuttings for Christmas trees? (pdf, size 1315 kb)
Ulrik Bräuner Nielsen, Hanne N. Rasmussen & Martin Jensen
Using buds from mature trees of Pinus sylvestris for budding young seedlings (pdf, size 125 kb)
Tapani Haapala
Field performance of rooted Scots pine cuttings of fascicular shoot origin (pdf, size 814 kb)
Tuija Aronen & Leena Ryynänen
Effect of stock plant pruning, hormone treatments and stock plant origin on the height of cloned Scots pine in a field trial (pdf, size 56 kb)
Anna-Maija Niskanen, Niina Stenvall, Anne Pakkanen & Pertti Pulkkinen

Technical issues – potentials of tissue culture

Production of Norway spruce somatic embryos – a practical point of view (pdf, size 161 kb)
Karl-Anders Högberg
Somatic embryogenesis of Scots pine – advances in pine tissue culture at Metla (pdf, size 340 kb)
Tuija Aronen, Teresa Pehkonen, Ravindra Malabadi & Leena Ryynänen
Integration of biotechnology, robot technology and visualisation technology for development of methods for automated mass production of elite trees (pdf, size 386 kb)
Jens Find & Peter Krogstrup

Collaboration and future sights

Possibilities for EU and Nordic research funding (pdf, size 29 kb)
Eeva Karjalainen & Maarit Kytö

Aronen, Tuija, Nikkanen, Teijo & Tynkkynen, Tiina (eds.). 2009. Vegetative propagation of conifers for enhancing landscaping and tree breeding.. Metlan työraportteja / Working Papers of the Finnish Forest Research Institute 114. 80 p. ISBN 978-951-40-2154-1 (PDF). Available at: http://www.metla.fi/julkaisut/workingpapers/2009/mwp114.htm.

Tuija Aronen, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Punkaharju Research Unit, Finlandiantie 18, FI-58450 Punkaharju, Finland. e-mail tuija.aronen@metla.fi

Unit: Punkaharju Research Unit
Projects: Biotechnology in forest genetics and tree breeding, Cultivation of exotic and special tree species