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Publications & Annual Reports

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2008

Emerson, J.L., L.J. Frampton and S.E. McKeand. 2008. Genetic variation in early growth and bud production among natural populations of Fraser fir. HortScience 43: 589-968.

Isik, F., H.V. Amerson, R.W. Whetten, S. Garcia, B. Li, and S.E. McKeand. 2008. Resistance of Pinus taeda families under artificial inoculations with diverse fusiform rust pathogen populations and comparison with field trials. Can. J. For. Res. (in press)

Isik, F., M. Gumpertz, B. Li, B. Goldfarb, X. Sun. 2008. Analysis of cellulose microfibril angle (MFA) using a linear mixed model in Pinus taeda clones. Can. J For. Research 38: 1676-1689

Isik, F, B. Li, B. Goldfarb, and S. McKeand. 2008. Prediction of wood density breeding values of Pinus taeda elite parents from unbalanced data: a method for adjustment of site and age effects using common checklots. Ann. For. Sci. 65: 406-418

McKeand, S.E., D.M. Gerwig, W. P. Cumbie, and J.B. Jett. 2008. Seed orchard management strategies for deployment of intensively selected loblolly pine families in the southern US. P. 177- 182, In: Lindgren, D. (ed.). Seed orchards, Proceedings from a conference at Umeå, Sweden, September 26-28, 2007 (ISBN: 978-91-85911-28-8)

McKeand, S.E., B. Li, J.E. Grissom, F. Isik, and K.J.S. Jayawickrama. 2008. Genetic parameter estimates for growth traits from diallel tests of loblolly pine throughout the southeastern United States. Silvae Genetica 57:101-110.

Sherrill, J.R., T.J. Mullin, B.P. Bullock, S.E. McKeand, R.C. Purnell, M.L. Gumpertz, and F. Isik. 2008. An evaluation of selection for volume growth in loblolly pine. Silvae Genetica 57(1):22-28.

2007

Cumbie, W.P., S.E. McKeand, J. Espinoza, F. Isik, and J.E. Grissom. 2007. Improvements in stem form and growth of elite genotypes in loblolly pine. P. 108-111. In: Proc. 29th South. For. Tree Impr. Conf., Galveston, TX. Galveston, TX.

McKeand, S.E., B.J. Zobel, T.D. Byram, and D.A. Huber. 2007. Southern pine tree improvement – a living success story. P. 3-7. In: Proc. 29th South. For. Tree Impr. Conf., Galveston, TX. Galveston, TX.

2006

Alizoti, P., B. Li, and S.E. McKeand. 2006. Early evaluation of intra- and inter-provenance hybrids of loblolly pine for planting in Piedmont regions of the southern US. For. Sci 52:557-567.

Emerson, J.L., L.J. Frampton, and S.E. McKeand. 2006. Genetic variation of spring frost damage in three-year-old Fraser fir Christmas tree plantations. HortScience 41:1531-1536.
Hu, X. S., B. Li. 2006. Additive genetic variation and the distribution of QTN effects among sites. Journal of Theoretical Biology 243:76-85.

Li, Hua, H. Amerson, Bailian Li. 2006. Genetic models of host–pathogen gene interaction based on inoculation of loblolly pine seedlings with the fusiform rust fungus. New Forests 31: 245-252.

Li, Hua., S. Ghosh, H. Amerson and B. Li. 2006. Major gene detection for fusiform rust resistance using Bayesian complex segregation analysis in loblolly pine. Theor. and Appl. Genetics 113:921-929.

Lstibůrek, M., Mullin, T.J., and El-Kassaby, Y.A. 2006. The impact of differential success of somatic embryogenesis on the outcome of clonal forestry programs. I. Initial comparison under multi-trait selection. Can. J. For. Res. 36: 1376-1384.

McKeand, S.E., R.C. Abt, H.L. Allen, B. Li, and G.P. Catts. 2006. What are the best loblolly pine genotypes worth to landowners? J. For. 104:352-358.

McKeand, S.E., E.J. Jokela, D.A. Huber, T.D. Byram, H. Lee Allen, B. Li, T.J. Mullin. 2006. Performance of improved genotypes of loblolly pine across different soils, climates, and silvicultural inputs. For. Ecol. and Manag. 227:178-184.

Myburg, H., A.M. Morse, H.V. Amerson, T.L. Kubisiak, D. Huber, J.A. Osborne, S.A. Garcia, C.D. Nelson, J.M. Davis, S.F. Covert, and L.M. van Zyl. 2006. Differential gene expression in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) challenged with the fusiform rust fungus, Cronartium quercuum f.sp. fusiforme. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 68:79–91.

Sykes, R., B. Li, F. Isik, J. Kadla, H.M. Chang. 2006. Genetic variation and genotype by environment interactions of juvenile wood chemical properties in Pinus taeda L. Annals of Forest Science 63 (8): 897-904.

Yu, Q., B. Li, C.D. Nelson, S.E. McKeand, V.B. Batista, and T.J. Mullin. 2006. Association of the cad-n1 allele with increased stem growth and wood density in full-sib families of loblolly pine. Tree Genetics & Genomes 2:98-108.