Domestication of trees is the process of adaptive cultivation of species introduced from outside the region (or foreign countries) and not available in the region (or country) to become cultivated in the region (or country). It not only enriches local tree resources and improves the composition and proportion of existing tree species but also brings significant economic benefits and is necessary for the conservation of biodiversity and ecological balance of the landscape, so botanists greatly value it.
Lifeasible, as a leading plant biotechnology company, offers you a one-stop service for tree introduction and domestication with our extensive experience in plant genetics, molecular biology, and plant breeding. We will have profound discussions and close cooperation to meet all aspects of your needs.
Based on the genetic and ecological principles of introductory domestication, our forest tree introductory domestication service needs to consider the following issues.
The ecological similarity is the primary issue to be considered in the forest tree introduction domestication. We will follow the laws of nature in our service and select the introductions from natural ecological distribution areas with similar latitude, altitude, climate (temperature, precipitation, sunlight, etc.), soil, disease, and cultivation.
The genetic adaptability of forest trees is also a problem we need to consider. Some species can adapt to various natural climatic and soil environmental conditions, and adaptability is easy to introduce successfully. Some plants are limited to specific environments and are not easy to successfully introduce. Plant genetic adaptability depends on plants' self-regulation ability, and species with high genotypic heterozygosity often have strong adaptability. Therefore, we need to determine the introduced species' origin, and understand their adaptive capacity.
Depending on your specific needs, different methods are available for our forest tree introduction and domestication services, mainly compliant introduction and domestication, conservation introduction and domestication, and conversion introduction and domestication.
Direct introduction of seeds or clones, based on which excellent individuals are selected for cultivation and domestication, that is, adaptive introduction and domestication.
1) The characteristics of large individual differences in the introduction of seed progeny are conducive to selecting excellent individuals. We can directly introduce seeds for sowing and raising seedlings and select excellent individual plants from 1-2-year-old seedlings. To achieve the purpose of domestication.
2) Introduce clones
To prevent the deterioration of the excellent character of the tree species, clones of improved varieties can be introduced. Asexual reproduction can well maintain the excellent traits of the female parent, and many individuals can be obtained through asexual reproduction, such as cuttings, grafting, budding, and further domestication.
Select small terrain and niche to make it closer to the ecological conditions of the origin of the introduced tree species, also known as the microclimate domestication method. To a certain extent, artificially changing the cultivation measures can adjust the environmental differences between the origin and the introduction and cultivation areas and improve the success rate of introduction.
Through human disturbance, the physiological and ecological habits of trees are changed to a certain extent, and their resistance and adaptability to certain conditions are increased to adapt to new site conditions. The seedlings can be treated with cold resistance, drought resistance, and other resistance, and choose to introduce, migrate and domesticate generation by generation gradually, or use methods such as hybrid breeding, polyploidy breeding, mutation breeding, etc. to cultivate new species suitable for growth in the introduced area. Type, new variety.
Lifeasible has the professional equipment and technical team and many years of practical experience in forest introduction and domestication. We are committed to providing you with tailor-made services for introducing and domesticating of forest trees. If you have any doubts, consultation, or cooperation intentions, please feel free to contact us.
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