Richard Whittet

tree improvement and forest genetic resources @Forest_Research

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

Apply by tomorrow 15 Jan before the rather peculiar time of 1545 UTC (UK time)

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

🌲🧬DO YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME GENETIC GAIN?!?💪🌳

If so, then apply for this job in my team @Forest_Research by 15 Jan to help in the day-to-day running of tree improvement programmes and applied research projects.

Forest Genetics Operations Manager https://t.co/rQRsK2F3p2

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

🌲🧬DO YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME GENETIC GAIN?!?💪🌳

If so, then apply for this job in my team @Forest_Research by 15 Jan to help in the day-to-day running of tree improvement programmes and applied research projects.

Forest Genetics Operations Manager https://t.co/rQRsK2F3p2

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

Dream team to work with + had time to visit a cathedralesque Douglas breeding arboretum planted in the 60s with the first round of British selections

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

We are marking up forward-selected Douglas firs in "US85" progeny tests in Mortimer forest and collecting cambium samples for genotyping

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

One of the reasons I prefer the %consumption imported formulation... the scale of ambition to be 4th or 5th would be unbelievable and we'd still be the "nth largest net importer"

[Forestry Journal @Forestry_UK]

The UK is back as the world's second-largest net importer of forest products.

Only China imported more timber (as a net value) in the 2023.

🔗https://t.co/baniHgn0LZ

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

@LGuillardin great - will be interesting to hear about it at some point. we measured the one in the west of England in January if that would be useful to you? no disease in it yet though..

[Tom Sim @thomasgeorgesim]

At Northern Research Station we've sown 10 provenances of Scots pine from across Europe (see map)🌲

So far they're growing well!

After another growing season they'll be planted at two multispecies common gardens in the UK as part of a wider European network @OptFORESTS

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

Controlled (polymix) pollination of Scots pine - very efficient this year in @ForestryEngland's well managed seed orchard @ForestProtectUK (though it's only about 50 metres into England)

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

Rapid flowering in one year from a couple of spruce grafts - both with fairly precarious looking unions

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

This is the first Sitka spruce graft from the below multi-provenance stiffness (modulus of elasticity) selection campaign to flower on the nursery. This tree's parents are/were from Naden Harbour, Haida Gwaai

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

Selecting candidate 'plus trees' in a range-wide @IUFRO provenance trial of Sitka spruce today in northern 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. In January, these trees will be felled, assessed for acoustic velocity and the best ones will be cloned to build up an elite population for stiffness @Forest_Research

[Future Trees Trust @FutureTreesUK]

This #PlantHealthWeek our Head of Research, Jo Clark provides an update on the Living Ash Project following 10 yrs of research to restore #ash:
https://t.co/trMSRTfN8W

@DefraGovUK #NPHW #IPHD @APHAgovuk @ForestryComm @niabgroup @Forest_Research @kewgardens @plantchief

[Centre for Forest Protection @ForestProtectUK]

Our first internship diary comes from Eve, whose internship @Forest_Research involved learning lots of fieldwork skills and developing her mathematical modelling and R-coding knowledge. https://t.co/9Kio5Gqc2R

[Jaroslav Klapste @klapstej]

Our latest paper is out! Congratulations Duncan! Well-connected trials show low genotype-by-environment interaction in ... https://t.co/0H8wbIxj11

[Institut Européen de la Forêt Cultivée @IEFCPlantForest]

🔴 IEFC - Annual General Assembly - 2024 and IEFC's 25th Anniversary🎉.

Join us in #Scotland 🗓️4-5 June 2024

📢Registration: https://t.co/fGwkXO7BOb
📌Tentative Agenda: https://t.co/QGsptuwhKc
➡️More information: https://t.co/Y5i7AnOiD3

#plantedforests @Forest_Research

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

@lowfalla It's still standing but I generally give it a wide berth

[Richard Whittet @treevolecol]

Our "temporary storage shed for cones" AKA the pagoda, immortalised in FC Bulletin 83 (1992) is being retired after ~50(?) years of service and replaced with a new one. £millions of genetic gains have passed through it's arches