Highlights - TBGRC 2007-2008 Annual Meeting and Report
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Grant support strong
- 800K to 1 million/yr in 07-09
- Industry funds ~8% of total
- Great leverage continues! -
Center for Advanced Forestry (CAFS) established (~19k/yr, National Science Foundation):
- NSF Center began at OSU, then merger with Purdue, now extended to four universities
- Collaboration with NC State, Virginia Tech, Purdue
- You will be invited and encouraged to attend these meetings, with broader forestry focus- Conifer breeding and physiology
- Growth and yield
- Soils and nutrition
- Currently support for phyB project, general Coop work
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Success in obtaining USDA APHIS permit for field trials of flowering trees of many types
- Poplar and sweetgum -
Success in obtaining USDA APHIS permit for field trials of flowering trees of many types
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Strong participation in natl/intl regulatory-biosafety activities:
- Society of American Foresters position statement
- PRRI: Public Research and Regulation Initiative, Co-head of project on GM trees- UN Convention on Biodiversity, Cartagena Protocol negotiations
- Attempt to ban "field releases" of GE trees
- Attended meetings in Montreal, Rome, and Bonn
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Participation in US Natl Res Council Committees that concern GE crops and trees
- GMO Ecological Issues for Wildlands
- Future of Plant Genomics -
High quality of field study of yield and competition in GA-inhibited, semi-dwarf trees
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Strong growth effects seen in the greenhouse from insertion of native poplar GA genes
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Strong, narrow crown phenotypes seen in phytochrome B-RNAi field study
- Expanded, intensified field study led by Glenn Howe, funded by DOE -
High quality of field study, new mutants continue to be seen, in study of activationtagged trees
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Excellent survival and growth in field study of transgenic sterile(?) sweetgum
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High survival in clone bank established with >1,000 events, >5,000 trees, with sterility genes (>95%)
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Continued strong pollen reduction in 12-year old male-sterile transgenic trees
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Marked changes in wood quality and growth in lignin-modified, antisense-4CL trees in field trial
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Physiological sculpture of plants: New visions and capabilities for crop development
- New Phytologist Tansley Symposium
- 17-20 September 2008
- Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon USA -
Goal: Integration, vision, about breakthrough possibilities based on new genomic plant science
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Raised >50K to support meeting
PROGRAM, SOCIETY
RESEARCH
SYMPOSIUM SEPT 2008
To obtain a full copy of an annual technical report please contact:
Steven Strauss
steven.strauss@oregonstate.edu
(541) 737-6578 / (541) 737-6562
Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society
321 Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-5752



