'frees contribute a major part of fuel, fodder and fruit, and are
an im of bioenergy. They are now needed in large numbers more
portant source than ever before for afforestation and social
forestry, so that fast-grow ing and multipurpose trees assume great
importance. After extensive in discriminate deforestation and rapid
depletion of genetic stocks, efforts are now being made to evolve
methods for clonal mass propagation of improved and elite trees.
Production of short-duration trees with a rapid turnover of
biomass, and induction of genetic variability through in vitro
manipulation for the production of novel fruit and forest trees,
which are high-yielding and resistant to pests and diseases, and
trees which display increased photosynthetic efficiency are in
demand. These objectives are well within the realm of horticultural
and forest biotech nology. Some of the recent advances, such as the
regeneration of com plete trees from isolated protoplasts, somatic
hybridization, and the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in
various tree species have opened new vistas for the genetic
engineering of fruit and forest trees. This book is a continuation
of the earlier volume Trees I, and presents 31 chapters on fruit,
forest, nut and ornamental trees, such as avocado, pineapple,
crabapple, quince, pistachio, walnut, hazelnut, date palm, oil
palm, cacao, rubber, maple, sweet-gum, poplars, birches, Chinese
tallow, willows, oaks, paper mulberry, rhododendrons, Scots pine,
Calabrian pine, Douglas-fir, redwood, ginkgo, cycads and some
flowering trees."
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