Domestication of Radiata Pine, Rowland Burdon; William Libby; Alan Brown

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- I. Introduction.- 1.1. Processes of domestication.- 1.2. The radiata pine story.- 1.2.1. Historical preview.- 1.2.2. Land races.- 1.2.3. The Development of plantation management.- 1.2.4. The step to intensive breeding.- 1.2.5. The political and institutional context for technical progress.- 1.2.6. The current radiata resource.- II. Early History: 7,000,000 Years Ago to 1901 C.E.- 2.1. Five small native forests.- 2.1.1. Mainland populations.- 2.1.1.1. Extent.- 2.1.1.2. Associate tree species and soils.- 2.1.2. Island populations.- 2.1.3. Paleohistory and taxonomy.- 2.3.1.1. Fossils and evolution.- 2.3.1.2. The naming of radiata pine.- 2.1.4. Native American impacts.- 2.1.5. Spanish, Mexican and Californian impacts.- 2.2. Early institutional and political factors in plantation forestry.- 2.2.1. Australia.- 2.2.2. New Zealand.- 2.2.2.1. Canterbury.- 2.2.2.2. The Wellington Botanic Garden.- 2.2.3. South Africa.- 2.2.4. Chile.- 2.3. Early plantings.- 2.3.1. European seed collections and plantings.- 2.3.2. Australia.- 2.3.3. New Zealand.- 2.3.3.1. Canterbury.- 2.3.3.2. Auckland.- 2.3.3.3. Elsewhere in New Zealand.- 2.3.4. South Africa.- 2.3.5. Chile.- 2.3.6. Spain and Portugal.- 2.3.7. The British Isles.- 2.3.8. Other countries.- 2.4. Summary of domestication progress.- III. The Early Plantation Period: 1901-1951.- 3.1. Why large plantation programs?.- 3.1.1. Australia.- 3.1.2. New Zealand.- 3.1.3. Elsewhere.- 3.2. The evolution of institutions that supported plantation development.- 3.2.1. Australia.- 3.2.1.1. South Australia.- 3.2.1.2. Victoria.- 3.2.1.3. New South Wales.- 3.2.1.4. Other States: Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania.- 3.2.2. New Zealand.- 3.2.2.1. The State Forest Service.- 3.2.2.2. Other public agencies.- 3.2.2.3. Private enterprise.- 3.2.2.4. Research and Development.- 3.2.3. Chile.- 3.3.4. South Africa.- 3.2.5. Spain.- 3.3. The choice of radiata pine.- 3.3.1. Australia: Ecological fit and commercial acceptance.- 3.3.1.1. South-eastern Australia.- 3.3.1.2. The edge: Queensland and Western Australia.- 3.3.2. New Zealand.- 3.3.3. South Africa.- 3.3.4. Chile.- 3.3.5. Spain.- 3.3.6. East and south-central Africa.- 3.3.7. Ecuador.- 3.3.8. Elsewhere.- 3.4. The development of plantation management.- 3.4.1. Nursery and planting practice.- 3.4.2. Soils and nutrition.- 3.4.3. Genetics of radiata pine.- 3.4.3.1. Early historical influences.- 3.4.3.2. The beginnings of purposeful intervention.- 3.4.4. Silviculture.- 3.5. Some alarms.- 3.6. Summary of domestication progress.- IV. The Beginnings of Genetic Improvement: 1951 to 1968.- 4.1. General Context.- 4.1.1. Australia.- 4.1.2. New Zealand.- 4.1.3. Chile.- 4.1.4. South Africa.- 4.1.5. Elsewhere.- 4.2. Introductory remarks on breeding.- 4.3. Theory.- 4.3.1. Some basic principles.- 4.3.2. Concepts and principles of quantitative genetics and breeding.- 4.4. The Scandinavian school of tree breeding.- 4.5. Institutional settings.- 4.5.1. USA.- 4.5.2. Australia.- 4.5.3. New Zealand.- 4.5.4. South Africa.- 4.6. Interim genetic improvement measures.- 4.7. Intensive breeding.- 4.7.1. Background.- 4.7.2. Traits chosen for early-generation selection.- 4.7.3. Regionalisation?.- 4.7.4. Clonal archives.- 4.7.5. Seed orchards.- 4.7.6. Genetic trials and mating designs in breeding programme.- 4.8. Vegetative propagation.- 4.9. Other studies.- 4.10. Programme reviews.- 4.11. Summary of domestication progress.- V. Development of the Management Concept While Tree Improvement shifts gears: 1969 to 1983.- 5.1. Introduction.- 5.2. Where which species will perform well.- 5.3. Institutional developments.- 5.3.1. Australia.- 5.3.2. New Zealand.- 5.3.3. South Africa.- 5.3.4. Chile.- 5.4. The context of intensified management practices.- 5.4.1. Introduction.- 5.4.2. Crop establishment.- 5.4.2.1. Seed collection.- 5.4.2.2. Natural regeneration.- 5.4.2.3. Direct seeding.- 5.4.2.4. Nursery behaviour and transplanting.- 5.4.2.5. Site preparation an