Abstract
The 2018 Woody Crops International Conference was held from 22 to 27 July 2018 throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin, USA to unite world-leading short rotation woody crop (SRWC) organizations at a forum designed to enhance information exchange while also building a platform for developing future collaboration around SRWC production systems. The meeting included pre-conference and post-conference tours in Minnesota and Wisconsin and technical sessions in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Technical sessions were framed under the topics: Genetics and Physiology, Phytotechnologies, Stakeholders, Bioproducts, Harvesting and Logistics, Biomass Production, and Ecosystem Services. This Conference Report provides a compilation of abstracts from each of the 38 oral and poster presentations delivered during the technical program. It should serve to enhance future discussions among scientists, academicians, regulators, and the general public relative to sustainable application of SRWC technologies for a multitude of current objectives.
Highlights
Poplar (Populus spp.) breeding in North America, like everywhere, is dependent on funding and markets
Following contemporary worldwide trends in research and practice related to poplars and willows, which are collaborations since the early 2000s with colleagues from the Faculty of Sciences-Department of Biology and Ecology at the University of Novi Sad have focused on the investigation of phytoremediation potential of poplar and willow clones from the Institute’s genepool
Our analysis considered the attractiveness of planting Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) willow (Salix spp.) plantations on agricultural land, public funds spent for short-term interventions against ragweed, and costs to the local economy
Summary
Poplar (Populus spp.) breeding in North America, like everywhere, is dependent on funding and markets. GreenWood Resources managed large-scale hybrid poplar (Populus spp.) farms ranging in size from 20 to 38 ha in Idaho, Oregon, California, and Washington, USA to demonstrate biomass yields, production costs, and harvesting technology in growing renewable feedstocks under the Advanced Hardwood Biofuel Northwest project (AHB). The objectives of this study were to: (1) identify clones that are superior in growth rate, disease resistance, and had acceptable genetic stability and G × E across different environments as candidates for moving into field tests approximating commercial conditions (i.e., yield blocks), (2) investigate clonal stability and G × E of the clones tested, and (3) discover general principles for understanding, controlling, and using clonal stability and G × E in hybrid poplar genetic improvement programs. Assess the similarity of citizen-collected data compared with expert-collected data and (2) evaluate the effectiveness of a -designed tree health rubric in collecting accurate phyto-recurrent selection data
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