CENTER FOR TREE GENETICS: Formation of a Joint Center between Purdue University and Oregon State University

这一行动将硬木树改良和再生中心（HTIRC）与现有的国家科学基金会工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC），俄勒冈州州立大学的树木遗传工程研究合作社（TGERC）结合起来。 这两个中心有着相同的目标：研究用于集约化管理的树木种植园的基因改良技术。 TGERC的目标、结构和政策已经确立，与HTIRC的目标、结构和政策相似。 HTIRC与分子和经典遗传学家，树木生理学家，造林学家，苗圃和再生专家垂直整合。 优势是进行基础、应用和发展研究的能力，因此所创造的遗传知识将以增值产品的形式提供给工业和私人土地所有者，而不是只有利于科学界的知识。

This action joins the Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center (HTIRC) with an existing National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC), the Tree Genetic Engineering Research Cooperative (TGERC) at Oregon State University. Both centers share the same goal: the study of technologies to genetically improve trees for use in intensively managed tree plantations. The objectives, structure, and policies of TGERC are well established, and similar to those of the HTIRC. HTIRC is vertically integrated with molecular and classical geneticists, tree physiologists, silviculturalists, and nursery and regeneration specialists. The strength is the ability to perform basic, applies, and developmental research so the genetic knowledge that is created will be delivered to industrial and private landowners in value-added products rather than knowledge that benefits only the scientific community.