Unravelling the relationship between growth and wood properties in temperate eucalypts

影响桉树纸浆用材林利润的最重要的生物学性状是生长、木材密度和纸浆率。木材收缩和坍塌对木材生产很重要。关于这些性状之间相关性的大小和方向的信息很少，但它们在决定育种中的选择反应以及环境对纸浆和锯木产量的影响方面很重要。合作的种植者和育种者带来了一个独特的蓝桉树和尼氏桉树田间试验基地，这将允许对这些关键利润性状之间的相互关系进行综合的定量和分子遗传研究。

The most important biological traits affecting profit in eucalypt plantations grown for pulpwood are growth, wood density and pulp yield. Shrinkage and collapse are important for timber production. Little information is available on the size and direction of the correlations between these traits, yet they are important in determining selection response in breeding as well as environmental impacts on pulp and sawlog yield. The collaborating growers and breeders have brought together a unique base of Eucalyptus globulus and E. nitens field trials that will allow an integrated quantitative and molecular genetic study of the interrelationships amongst these key profit traits.