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A Resource That Lasts Forever™
Closing the Investment Triangle: Timberlands, Emergent Markets, and Tree-Growing Technologies
International Quality and Productivity CenterJune 23, 2010
Brian J. Stanton, Ph. D.Managing Director, Tree Improvement Group
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“At the turn of the 20th century …
the world supported about one billion people. Today we are above six billion and counting. If we all ate simple vegetarian diets and farmed every acre of arable land as wisely as possible using the best techniques of the late 1800s, the earth could support a population of around four billion people. In theory, the other two-billion-plus inhabitants would be starving, the natural result of population outstripping food supply as doomsayers from Thomas Malthus to Paul Ehrlich have long predicted.”
“Ours is an age marked not by mass starvation but by an easy availability of cheap, high-calorie food. Our health problem is not malnutrition, but conditions related to overweight, from diabetes to heart disease. We are dying of plenty.”
Hagar, T. 2008, The Alchemy of Air. Three Rivers Press, New York. 316 pp.
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Greatest Success Story: Development of Hybrid Corn
Troyer, A. F. 2006. Adaptedness and heterosis in corn and mule hybrids. Crop Science 46: 528-543.
1. Annual productivity has increased from 20 to 147 bu ac-1 per year over the last 75 years.
2. Labor hours needed to produce 100 bushels have fallen from nearly 150 in 1900 to 3 in 1980
3. Agricultural gross domestic product increases nearly threefold after 1940
Gardner, B. L. 2002. American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How it flourished and what it cost. Harvard University Press, 388 pp.
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Forest Tree Improvement: Family Forestry
Select Potential Parents
Progeny Test to Rank Parents
Cross Pollinate Top Parents
1. Breeding
2. Deployment
Propagate Family by Seed
Photos courtesy Richard Bryant , Mike Cunningham, Arborgen
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Forest Tree Improvement: Varietal Forestry
Family 375111733 × PS-33-94Progeny = 50Average 2 yr. stem volume = 4.8 dm2
Family 349PS-06-94× 131217Progeny = 49Average 2 yr. stem volume = 9.0 dm2
Std. Dev. = 2. 87
Extreme individual @ 2.1 standard deviations above family mean
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Number of Genes Controlling Trait in Male and Female Parents
Number of PossibleGametic Combinations inPollen and Egg Cells
Number of PossibleUnique Offspring in a Superior Family
2 4 163 8 644 16 2565 32 1,0246 64 4,096
1/ Assumptions:• Linkage: Genes located on separate chromosomes.• Heterozygosity: Each gene represented by distinct alleles in each of
the male parent female parents.• Heterogeneity: Male and female parent have different alleles.• Additivity: No interaction within or between genes in their
expression
Varietal Forestry:Limits of Within-Family Genetic Variation1
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Capturing the extremes of a population’s distribution: Examples of Varietal Selection and Propagation:
Hybrid Poplar –hardwood cuttings
Eucalyptus –tissue culture & rooted cuttings
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Douglas-fir– Pacific Northwest
13-year-old stand
Photo courtesy of Keith Jayawickrama, Oregon State University
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Ye, T. Z., Jayawickrama, K. J. S., and St. Clair, J. B. 2010. Realized gains from block-plot coastal Douglas-fir trials in the northern Oregon Cascades. Silvae Genetica 59: 29-39
Douglas-fir– Pacific Northwest
Elite = 10 top controlled pollinated families
Intermediate = 2nd tier of 10 controlled pollinated families
Unimproved = 50 open-pollinated families from the wild
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Unimproved Intermediate Elite
Yield, Age 15, Cubic Meters / Hectare
205168
185
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Monterey Pine - New Zealand
Photo courtesy of Mike Carson, Forest Genetics, Ltd.
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Monterey Pine: Growth improvement at age 30
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Unimproved Open Pollinated Seed Orchard Control Pollinated Seed Orchard
Cubic Meters per Hectare
Open Pollinated Seed Orchard – Seed Collected from best parents, the female only
Control Pollinated Seed Orchard –Collecting seed from crosses among best females and best males
Source: Mike Carson, Forest Genetics, Ltd. Rotorua, New Zealand - 2010
754
905
1,165
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Loblolly Pine – Southeastern United States
Photo courtesy Steve McKeand, North Carolina State University
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Dougherty, D., Bryant, R., Burkhart, H., Dougherty, P., Jones, S., and McKeand, S. 2010. Valuing tomorrow’s loblolly pine plantations today. Forest Landowner: Jan./Feb. 19-21
Loblolly Pine – Southeastern United States
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Wattle - Acacia auriculiformis Vietnam
Photo courtesy of Chris Harwood, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
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Acacia auriculiformis - Vietnam
Hai, P. H., Harwood, C., Kha, L. D., Pinyopusarerk, K., and Thinh, H. H. 2008. Genetic gain from breeding Acacia auriculiformins in Vietnam. Journal of Tropical Forestry 20: 313-327
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Commercial Seedlot Average Seed Orchard Select Seed Orchard
Yield, Age 4, Cubic Meters /Hectare
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28
12
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Eucalyptus– Brazil
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Brazilian Eucalyptus Plantation’s Increase in Growth Rate (Productivity)
Source: Shinitiro Oda, Suzano Papel e Celulose, Brazil - 2010
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Unimproved 1980 1990 2000
Cubic Meters /Hectare /Year
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13
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Hybrid PoplarLower Columbia River Valley
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Hybrid Poplar:Biomass Productivity at Age 6
Source: Richard Shuren, GreenWood Resources 1993
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Unimproved Hybridization Varietal Selection
Metric Tons per Hectare
88
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40
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Closing Thoughts1. Planted forests account for 7% of the global forest area but two-thirds of the
world’s potential wood production. By 2030 the area of planted forests may increase by 30% and wood production by 50%, taking higher productivity rates into account. 1
2. Presently, gains in yield have approximated 150 to 233%. Real assessment includes quality traits of stand uniformity, stem form, wood density.
3. Compared to agronomic crops, forest tree improvement has just begun. Continuation threatened by changes in forest land ownership.
4. In addition to economic values, planted forests provide social, cultural, and environmental values.
“The time has come … for the timber-extraction industry to shift to tree farming on already converted land. The cultivation of lumber and pulp should be conducted like the agribusiness it is, using high-quality, fast-growing species and strains for high productivity and profit. 2”
1/ Carle, J. and Holmgren, P. 2008. Wood from planted forests: A global outlook 2005-2030. Forest Products Journal 58: 6-18.
2/ Wilson, E. O. 2002. The Future of Life. Random House, Inc. New York, 229 pp.