1 Forest plant breeding-General 1.1 Objectives and target traits 1.2 Specific approaches to the breeding of woody species Exercise 2 Basis for breeding of forest plants 2.1 Propagation of vascular plants 2.2 Genetic material 2.3 Inheritance 2.4 Quantitative genetics Exercise 3 Techniques for breeding of forest plants 3.1 Pollination techniques 3.2 Stimulation of flowering and fruiting 3.3 Asexual propagation techniques 3.4 Micropropagation 3.5 Molecular works 3.6 Cryopreservation Exercise 4 Shortcut introduction to breeding methods for forest plants 4.1 Selection breeding 4.2 Hybridization breeding 4.3 Introduction breeding 4.4 Mutation breeding 4.5 Biotechnological methods 4.6 Challenges in breeding of forest plants Exercise 5 Selection breeding 5.1 General concepts and background 5.2 Planning for selection breeding 5.3 Selection and maintenance of plus trees 5.4 Clone bank 5.5 Progeny test 5.6 Seed orchard 5.7 Selection effect and genetic gain 5.8 Heritability 5.9 Breeding strategy and expected effect Exercise 6 Hybridization breeding 6.1 General concepts and background 6.2 Breeding methods Exercise 7 Introduction breeding 7.1 General concepts and background 7.2 Breeding method Exercise 8 Mutation breeding 8.1 General concepts and background 8.2 Kinds of mutation 8.3 Mutagens 8.4 Polyploidy
8.5 Establishment of polyploids Exercise 9 Plant tissue culture 9.1 General concepts and background 9.2 Micropropagation of forest plants 9.3 Special application of plant tissue culture Exercise 10 Molecular breeding 10.1 General concepts and background 10.2 Functional genomics 10.3 Genetic transformation 10.4 Transgenic plants and useful traits Exercise 11 Forest plants as genetic resources: conservation and utilization 11.1 Centers of origin of cultivated plants 11.2 Evaluation 11.3 Documentation 11.4 Conservation of genetic resources of forest plants 11.5 Utilization Exercise Appendix Populus Researches in Korea for Energy Crop Project Comparison of Seed Component between Stem-Pruned and Un-Pruned Trees in Korean White Pine (Pinus koraiensis) Seed Orchard Characteristics and Germination of Xanthoceras sorbifolia Bunge Seeds Originated from Inner Mongolia and Liaoning, China Effects of Plant Growth Regulators on in vitro Propagation of Echinosophora koreensis Nakai The Identification of Populations of Korean Mistletoe ( Viscum album L.var.coloratum) from Gangwon-Do in Korea by AFLP Technique Estimates of Early Selection Using Age-Age Correlation by Stem Analysis in Pinus koraiensis Glossary