Forest Genetics

Acknowledgments xvii Preface xix Forest Genetics -- Concepts, Scope, History and Importance 1(14) Global Scope and Importance of Natural and Managed Forests 1(3) The Role of Plantations as Forest Ecosystems 4(2) Concepts and Sources of Variation in Forests 6(5) Separating Genotypic and Environmental Influences on Phenotypic Variation 6(2) Environmental Sources of Variation 8(1) Genetic Sources of Variation 9(2) Historical Perspective on Forest Genetics 11(3) General Genetics 11(2) Forest Genetics 13(1) Why Study Forest Genetics? 14(1) SECTION I: BASIC PRINCIPLES Molecular Basis of Inheritance -- Genome Organization, Gene Structure and Regulation 15(20) Genome Organization 15(11) The DNA Molecule 15(2) Cellular Organization of Genomes 17(1) Genome Size 18(1) Chromosomes and Polyploidy 19(2) Karyotype Analysis 21(1) Repetitive DNA 22(4) Gene Structure and Regulation 26(7) The Central Dogma and the Genetic Code 26(1) Transcription and Translation 27(2) Structural Organization of a Gene 29(1) Regulation of Gene Expression 30(3) Summary and Conclusions 33(2) Transmission Genetics -- Chromosomes, Recombination and Linkage 35(18) Mendelian Genetics 35(4) Mendel's Crossing Experiments with Peas 35(3) Mendelian Inheritance of Traits in Forest Trees