This volume presents twenty-four chapters on the biotechnology of trees and deals with the importance, distribution, conventional propagation, micropropagation, review of tissue culture studies, in vitro culture, and genetic manipulation of forest, fruit and ornamental trees, such as various species of
Acrocomia
,
Ailanthus
Anacardium
Allocasuarina
Carya
Casuarina
Coffea
Cyphomandra
Fagus
Feijoa
Fraxinus
Gymnocladus
Leptospermum
Metroxylon
Oxydendrum
Paeonia
Paulownia
Pouteria
Psidium
Quercus
. Included are also five chapters on gymnosperm trees, such as
Abies
fraseri
Cephalotaxus
Pinus
durangensis
P.
greggii
halepensis
pinea
, and
Tetraclinis
articulata
.
Trees IV is a valuable reference book for scientists, teachers, and students of forestry, botany, genetics and horticulture, who are interested in tree biotechnology.