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This project aims to promote the planting of the best quality Sitka planting stock and take forward the Sitka spruce breeding programme.
Forestry Commission policy
Ensuring well adapted, good quality planting stock with the best economic return is a key component of sustainable forestry as promoted in the forest policy documents for Scotland, England and Wales.
This project aims to ensure a supply of good quality full-sibling families for use in the vegetative propagation industry.
Should a new full-sibling family be made available for the first time, its predicted genetic gains will be published on the CBC website.
Elsewhere Forest Research and CBC are involved with creating new clonal archives, promoting new seed orchards, and planting new clonal archives for future pollination work
Funding is an equal partnership between Forest Research and CBC members from across the private forestry industry.
Forestry Commission policy
Ensuring well adapted, good quality planting stock with the best economic return is a key component of sustainable forestry as promoted in the forest policy documents for Scotland, England and Wales.
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